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...Mondale seemed at a psychic remove, Reagan worked at a physical remove, not talking to reporters, heading out perhaps twice a week to address rallies of his believers, to congratulate Americans for acting American and to dismiss the opposition-and, indeed, most complexity in the world-as being archaic, depressive and implicitly unmanly...
...study, by far the largest and most thorough of the 80-odd major surveys to take the psychic pulse of America since 1900, reports that during a given six-month period, one in five adults, or about 29 million people, suffers from mental problems. Only a fifth of those affected had recently sought professional help, mostly from general physicians rather than mental-health specialists...
...worldly accomplishment. There is rarely a true reckoning; death and memory seem only to prolong the sense of contest. Sons of famous men find the scorekeeping particularly onerous: whatever the offspring's achievements, both generations are likely to suspect that the father's glory enhanced them. That psychic battleground is toured by Michael J. Arlen, 53, a journalist, memoirist and television critic of The New Yorker, yet seemingly fated to be known always as the son of the celebrated '20s novelist Michael Arlen (The Green Hat). Say Goodbye to Sam is told in the first person...
Coles gently hints at this danger in a discussion of the phenomenon of "denial" or "psychic numbing," which appears in much of the literature on psychology and the bomb, and which is cited by leading disarmament advocates like Dr. Helen Caldicott as an explanation for why some people don't seem to be all that fazed by our nuclear arsenals. The implication of this analysis, Coles writes, is that certain people are not facing up to the reality of the nuclear arms race, and have instead "resorted to what are often called 'primitive psychological defense mechanisms,' presumably unworthy of intelligent...
...early, and false, claim to fame: the perfect high, it gets you there and back. (It is only those living in utter despair who choose a drug like heroin that takes you there for good: they are seeking not to holiday, but to emigrate.) The spirit of the psychic holiday was uncannily captured by Steven Spielberg, when he called Michael Jackson's peculiar child fantasy world (Disney dolls, cartoons, asexuality) a place where "I wish we could all spend some time." Living there, like living in New York, being another matter altogether...