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...their revolt against cultural matriarchy, these moderns were inspired and guided by two rival geniuses of psychology: the great precursor William James, who had died in 1910, and Sigmund Freud. There is a certain irony in the latter's role: Freud visited New York only once, in 1909, and was not impressed. He acknowledged that America was the first country to embrace psychoanalysis but detested the democratizing tendencies of the country's culture. Yet his ideas had a formative influence on writers as varied as Eugene O'Neill and James Thurber...
...provisions face Democratic filibusters. That strain could tear the lobbyists apart. The fealty of the Christian Coalition will be sorely tested, for example, if the Senate, as expected, pares the group's most cherished proposal: a new $500-a-child tax credit. The Home Builders would also revolt if Senator Bob Packwood, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, makes good on his threat to place new limits on the mortgage-interest deduction to pay for any cut in the tax on capital gains. To guard against those hazards, G.O.P. Senator Paul Coverdell, the Senate's lobbymeister, often attends...
...Fourth Eye, which will offer some prescriptions. In an interview with TIME last week, Wang conceded, ``Even now we have not figured out which direction China should go.'' He is concerned mainly with managing reforms without creating chaos--delivering ``reform in a controlled manner.'' He worries about a revolt by the ``living volcano'' of peasants and says he is focusing his research on how to keep China stable...
...revolt of the '60s, leftists reinterpreted American history and argued that the dream of freedom and equality was a farce of slaveowners. Yet while racism is part of the American past, each generation has seen our society grow more open and more inclusive. If we cannot claim a just past, we surely can look at a progress toward justice...
...state of Massachusetts had our revolt four years ago, in some respects this cleansing is something we went through in 1990 with the governor," says Paul Watanabe, professor of political science at UMass-Boston...