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...term limits were to be successfully imposed on the federal level, some critics are worried that Congress may become too much of an amateur's game. The career support staff, along with lobbyists and bureaucrats, may run roughshod over green legislators. Furthermore, many states would lose the clout of established Representatives and Senators, the hoary politicos whose years of service guarantee them influence and chairmanships of committees. Says Pat Schroeder, the 10-term Representative from Colorado: "Four states have half the votes in Congress. A state with only six votes and no seniority isn't going...
...amount of normality going on in America these days, and it is good to know. Our country is not obsessed with sex. To the contrary. We wear ourselves out working, we are surrounded with noise and distraction and all manner of entertainment, we indulge our children as they run roughshod over our lives, the ghosts of old aunts and beady-eyed preachers lurk in the shadows watching us. Considering what the American couple is up against, it's astounding to think that once a week or once a month or maybe just on Memorial Day and Christmas or whenever...
...first movement of the Schumann, the players plant huge accents and unlikely crescendos in their parts, as though trying to outdo each other. I agree that Ax's playing casts the largest shadow on these recordings. His clear and often too-powerful playing in the Schumann starkly highlights the roughshod scampering of Laredo and Stern. Laredo's most credible playing comes in the third movement, though his rich solo must contend with Stern's wavering obbligato...
Your reporter runs roughshod over the sense of my statement, suggesting that it reveals how students are at the mercy of incompetent TFs who are backed up by the professors who hire them...
That, finally, may be the central problem with declaring Freud finished. For all of his log rolling and influence peddling, his running roughshod over colleagues and patients alike, for all the sins of omission and commission that critics past and present correctly lay on his couch, he still managed to create an intellectual edifice that feels closer to the experience of living, and therefore hurting, than any other system currently in play. What he bequeathed was not (despite his arguments to the contrary), nor has yet proved itself to be, a science. Psychoanalysis and all its offshoots...