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...cited as an exception to the pattern of union complacency the Italianlabor leadership, who, he said, recognize that "capitalist management will never take into account the physical, material, and psychic condition of workers unless forced...
...creative, in which he attempts to build monuments to himself through his works; the sense developed by some, like the Shintoists, who see themselves as a part of nature, surviving in the natural mode after the individual death; and, finally, what Freud called the "oceanic feeling," the sense of psychic ecstasy surpassing life and death...
...does seem fairly clear that the turning point came with the Carswell defeat. As a New York Times political reporter visiting Harvard last spring suggested to a group of students he talked with, it seems quite plausible that Nixon suffered some kind of severe psychic setback after that Senate vote. The reporter felt as well that the then ongoing Cambodian crisis-both the invasion and the super patriotic rhetoric surrounding it-was a product of the same upset mind. He added, of course, that the President was sufficiently isolated from reporters and public that it might take more than...
...sympathetic approach holds that the individual is overcome by despair that he will ever accomplish anything by conventional means, and one implication is the severance of the last ethical link with established values in society." The hostile approach, he says, is to "see a common denominator in childhood experience, psychic debility or even derangement...
...Palestinian skyjackers, Historian Sharabi insists, are not suffering from psychic hang-ups, but from such despondency that "literally any means is justified by the end." Leila Khaled, the P.F.L.P.'s almond-eyed, two-time skyjacker, is a case in point. When Leila and an accomplice attempted to seize an El Al 707 in September, they were stopped cold by gunfire from El Al guards (Leila's companion was killed). Now back in Beirut, where she cuts a modish figure in floppy hats and close-fitting slacks, Leila is downright indignant about the El Al security men. "They had no sense...