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Apparently most prone to cancer, said Conference Chairman Claus B. Bahnson, professor of psychiatry at Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College, are persons who deny and repress their emotions after experiencing personal loss or tragedy. Rather than expressing grief normally through mourning, such people, he said, channel their emotional response internally through the nervous system. This in turn upsets the body's hormonal balance. It may also affect immunological processes. Both of these mechanisms may play a significant role in controlling and combatting the rogue cell growth of cancer...
...moral sense, violence is not power but an act of despair, an admission of failure to find any other way to gain a goal. By definition, every society is committed to nonviolence; the violent are suicidal, for society must repress acts against law and order. Yet realistically, one cannot gloss over the fact that violence often pays off. In the violent subculture of a juvenile gang, the nonviolent are considered cowards, and violence produces not guilt but status...
...fact protect ghetto residents. Yet in every "riot" so far they have produced terror, not security. They have beaten and shot "looters" and bystanders in discriminately, used machine guns against tenements, systematically destroyed black-owned property. Even in non-crisis times, as the constant complaints show, the police repress rather than protect black people from crime. Of course blacks want security; but peace must come from self-determination and justice, not from the barrel...
...Loevinger, 54, a former Justice Department trustbuster who barely conceals his contempt for television ("the literature of the illiterate") or for the FCC itself. "I think," he once told a congressional committee, "that there is grave danger that the commission is going to be so busy trying to repress yesterday's technological advances that we will still be working on them by the time they are replaced by tomorrow's technological advances...
...reply, Califano said the Selective Service System "is not an instrument to repress and punish unpopular views." He said the system does not "vest in draft boards the judicial role in determining the legality of individual conduct...