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...this heady new atmosphere political machines sprang up like mushrooms after a rain, and in no time at all 23 parties had named 965 candidates. Most formidable of the opposition groups was the Prachathipat (Democratic) Party headed by thin, reedy-voiced ex-Premier Nai Khuang Aphaiwong, who upheld the Pibul government's staunchly pro-Western foreign policy, but damned its corruption and authoritarianism. "We live under a government of gangsters," shrilled Nai Khuang, to the delight of thousands of assembled Bangkokians...
...says Gill, oppress the people and oppose the growth of Protestantism with intimidation and physical violence: and the "freehand, fly-by-night missionaries sent out by pentecostal churches, by fundamentalist societies, by their own perfervid wills." Gill also casts a skeptical eye on the nondenominational. evangelical Philippines Crusade, which sprang up in the wake of Billy Graham's 1956 tour through Southeast Asia. The evangelists, he says, are a ticking time bomb. "The doctrinal havoc, the personal tensions, the communal wreckage will come later as Stateside purse strings become puppet strings even upon the pleasant, well-meaning young...
...chaos of Hungary's first "five days of freedom," when everybody could plainly see that the Communists had no true strength anywhere in the country, sprang a new kind of organization, the "workers' councils." They were modeled on Communist Tito's workers' guilds. Their leaders were untrained in rebellion and unskilled in maneuver, but their strength was that they could genuinely claim to speak for the people. Ever since the Russians put Puppet Janos Kadar on the throne, he has sought by persuasion, threat and promise to undermine the workers' councils. He understood clearly...
Adler came closer to this cosmic ex perience. He called it "social feeling," and through it "gained a profound and intimate connection with life." This, suggests Progoff, sprang from his extravert nature, just as his theory about "organ inferiority" leading to compensation, and often overcompensation, must have been derived from his childhood. (Adler's earliest memory was of himself as an ailing, rachitic two-year-old, bandaged like a mummy, immobile on a park bench while his elder brother bounced around showing off his prowess.) A disciple of Freud until he broke with him in 1911, Adler insisted that...
...idea of launching a new college is not really a new one, for Harvard itself sprang from the tradition of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Yale, which later grew very big too, likewise came down from on high. And more recently, the Peterborough Plan was motivated by a desire to try again...