Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Initially, the reaction to Miller by the Swiss and Wall Street financial gnomes should be favorable. The business community has been aware for some time that Blumenthal had been badly wounded and his effectiveness diminished because of his internecine fights with the White House staff. Miller's good ties with Carter will cause optimism among U.S. businessmen. But while the arrival of Miller might improve Treasury-White House relations, the fundamental contradictions of the Administration's economic policy remain to be resolved. And for an Administration whose chief has kept tight personal control over these policies...
...years: among them, such now familiar concepts as the unconscious, the pleasure principle, regression and sublimation. Fliess, a Berlin physician who was Freud's closest friend for years, convinced Freud that all human beings were bisexual, and also offered ideas on the latency period (low sexuality preceding puberty), reaction formation (a defensive attraction to desires that are opposite of one's deeper, dangerous wishes) and something very close to the Freudian id. But, says Sulloway, Freud's disciples later dismissed Fliess as a crackpot, partly to make Freud appear as the originator of these concepts...
...Interpretation of Dreams "had been hailed as fantastic and ridiculous." Comments Sulloway: "Actually the book was widely and favorably reviewed in popular and scientific periodicals and it was recognized by a good number of its reviewers as 'epochmaking' and 'profound.'" Freud portrayed the cool reaction to an 1886 speech he gave on male hysteria as pigheadedness by an entrenched medical Establishment. In Sulloway's view, the doctors were unimpressed because Freud's message was old-hat-the bumptious young Freud had presumed to lecture his elders on matters they already well knew...
...Camp David summit. True, not everybody came away from it inspired. Jerry Wurf, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and one of Carter's earliest labor supporters in 1976, returned grumbling that unionists might consider voting for a Republican in 1980. But the reaction of Connecticut Governor Grasso was more typical: she found Carter "upbeat and confident, just terribly impressive." At the minimum, most of the summit visitors were persuaded to give Carter the benefit of the doubt for a few days, as he struggled to devise a program and a way to sell...
...prime-time TV, that he was unprepared to say very much. In part, this was because of deep divisions among his advisers on energy policy. And he seemed strangely unaware of the uproar that his decision would touch off. Said a top aide of Carter's reaction to the Washington speculation: "He thinks it's funny...