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First, to cast psychoanalysis as the soldier of science in the battle between mysticism and rationalism seems to handicap the side of reason. While analysis is currently in retreat from more purely scientific methods of treating mental disorders, notably psychopharmacology, religion remains the purest form of faith. The combatants in this battle begin on inherently unequal terms, then, because Catholicism has every right to carry the standard of mysticism, while psychoanalysis can make at best a feeble claim to the banner of nationalism...
...course, Harvard wasn't taking Southern grace easily, sprinkling two fumbles of its own among the William and Mary turnovers. Tribe coach Jimmye Laycock, the purest of Southern gentlemen, did his good deed for the day on his team's next possession. The turnover streak stopped at four, but Laycock's gift was just as pleasing for Harvard...
What is more, democracy in its purest forms should never be allowed to exist. The Founding Fathers, the ancient Greeks, even a majority of the Crimson realized that unleashed democracy will always fail to protect minorities from a tyranny of the majority...
...question is too psychologically layered to be answered by Veblen's mechanistic theories. Brooks suggests that the parodic style of showing off is purest at society's extremes. There is the avant-garde's Warholian art and minority put-ons of majority classes, like black mockery of white manners...
...memoirs, as his novels, Powell provides a mat finish, graying the colors on the premise that only by downplaying life can its shining horror be brought under control. And so the scene of purest Powell occurs when the author celebrates V-E day by reading the Cambridge History of English Literature...