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While CRAP (Committee to Repress Anti-Pickets) declined to appear, Jon Harrington '63 staged a one-man "maverick" picket apparently in support of the Birch group, but then "not really...
Thinking that CAMP was "an example of the type of asinine thing only Harvard students could do," Elliot H. Stanley '63 and Frederick C. Dietx, Jr. '63 quickly proclaimed the creation of CRAP (Committee to Repress Anti-Picketers). Diets and Stanley said they have found interest in their group but did not think they would send out a picket line of their...
Arrest on the Road. Premier Menderes was spending the night at a guesthouse at a new sugar mill in Eskisehir, where that day he had denounced the lawyers and professors who had criticized his most recent efforts to repress opposition, and told cheering supporters: "They think they can bring us down, but they cannot. We are too strong. We will fix them." Around midnight, pleasantly warmed by raki. he went...
...pressure has done nothing to repress his spirit. Cousteau can delight in eccentric garb ranging from crimson sweaters to Russian astrakhan hats. Or he can turn serious, hold an audience rapt as he talks of his vocation: "I used to dream of flying-the classic attempt to get away from the reality of earth. But since I have been diving, I have not had the dream. Diving is the most fabulous satisfaction you can experience. I am miserable out of water. It is as though you had been introduced to heaven, and then found yourself back on earth. The spirituality...
...1930s, May holds, there was not so much of this sex-based anxiety, especially in the U.S., and neurotic anxiety then seemed to stem mainly from repressed hostility. Since World War II, Dr. May contends, there has been another change: most of the anxiety that he sees in practice comes not from repression of instinctual drives, but from the fact that too many people feel that life has lost its meaning for them. This, he argued, brings normal, "existential" anxiety to the surface. Nowadays, when people first sense this normal anxiety, they may still repress it, and consequently develop...