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John Dean is a one. A famous opera singer is a five. Manhattan Psychiatrist Herbert Spiegel, who invented the eye-roll scale in the first place, is in the middle, between a two and a three...
...Spiegel, 63, a clinical professor at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, measuring the eye roll is no mere cocktail-party game but "a pivotal clinical sign" of how susceptible a person is to being hypnotized. Even more surprising, he says it is also a rough index of some basic personality traits, including suggestibility and gullibility...
Among Bahro's sympathetic listeners in East Germany was a high-level Communist bureaucrat who was moved to compose a laudatory article for the West German weekly Der Spiegel. The anonymous apparatchik declared that "Bahro's courage has earned him an honorable place in the history of the German workers' movement." Other officials were scarcely in agreement. Indeed, Bahro's broadcast has infuriated the East German leadership, which is determined to stamp out nonconformity, ranging from the manifest heresy of Bahro's book to mildly subversive rock-'n'-roll lyrics. Along with prison...
Jesus Son of Man, by Rudolf Augstein (Urizen; 408 pages; $12.95). Founder and publisher of Der Spiegel, the West German weekly newsmagazine, Agnostic Augstein is an angry product of Catholic schooling. He asks how the church "dares to appeal to a Jesus who never existed, to teachings he never taught, to a mandate he never issued, and to a claim that he was God's son which he never presumed for himself." When it came out in Germany in 1972, the book was attacked by Christian thinkers of all varieties; Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner condemned it as a "frontal...
...unable to regain his job-or a position that he particularly wanted with JET, the inter-European nuclear power project. There the matter stood until a source every bit as mysterious as the fabled "Deep Throat" of Watergate turned over the entire Verfassungsschutz file on Traube to Der Spiegel...