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...bearing, Illich says, gave Western man a choice between more freedom in equity or more speed. When men selected more speed, they were not aware of the hidden costs their progeny would discover in high-energy transportation: inhuman times scarcity, massive space consumption, invidious class conflict and the consequent psychic and social frustration. He incisively explains how this "raindance of continuing acceleration" increasingly determines the schedule of daily life, the geography of social space, the correlation of speed with socio-economic rank and the very quality of human existence: "Past a certain threshold of energy consumption for the fastest passenger...
...Tandy) is upset because Butley(Alan Bates) encouraged a student to quit one of her stifling seminars. Joey Keyston (Richard O'Callaghan), a junior member of the department, is planning to move in with his lover, Reg, whom Butley disdains. This news stirs not only jealousy but whole psychic subcurrents of his own unresolved homosexuality. Butley counterattacks this battalion of woes with great sardonic war whoops, trying to beat back misery with salvos of bitter jokes...
There is also a host of treatment centers-7,500 by latest count-and treatments. Until recently, alcoholics were thought to be all but incurable, afflicted with a kind of psychic leprosy...
...matter of taste, and everyone's taste runs differently. Different plotlines, settings, actors, genres, etc., immediately start off with associations for the reviewer, associations which may or may not be favorable, and which cannot help but precondition the reviewer to have certain expectations. Confronted with this state of psychic anarchy, the reviewer essentially has two options. He can accept his preconditioning as a given, and simply write down his reactions as they occur, leaving it to the reader to determine the extent to which the reviewer's tastes overlap with the reader's own. The other option is to attempt...
Since I researched the psychic healers of the Philippines for several years and wrote objectively about their unexplained art, I can say with authority that the phenomenon is genuine most of the time-unexplained, but genuine...