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...While watching the play," Psychiatrist George Vaillant told the audience, "imagine yourself an intern several years from now. George would enter the hospital yellow with jaundice and with cirrhosis of the liver, the results of his alcoholism. Martha would come in for her third operation for adhesions resulting from stab wounds." During the discussion, Vaillant prompted the students and actors with questions. What were George and Martha angry about? What defense mechanisms did they use to conceal their difficulties...
...direct my great energy into the proper form of protest. He invented long simple allegories that always pictured the white politicians as animals...He and my mother went to great pains to impress on me that it was the worst form of niggerism to hook and jab, cut and stab at other blacks...
When the compound was secured an hour later, nine hostages lay dead. Also dead or fatally wounded were 26 prisoners (four convicts were later found dead of stab wounds, apparently inflicted by other inmates in factional fighting). Then, in the confusion of the aftermath, Oswald and Dunbar made a perhaps understandable but nonetheless inexcusable mistake. They announced that the hostages had all died by having their throats slit. Dunbar added that two hostages had been killed before the attack, and that one hostage had been found emasculated, his testicles stuffed in his mouth...
...When the search for provincial endorsements looked utterly hopeless, Ky's forces made a last-minute stab at the Assembly. There, 59 members had remained uncommitted despite Thieu's pressure tactics. Suddenly, as if on cue, Dr. Tran Tarn, a Catholic theologian and former Director of Information in the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem, declared himself a candidate, and 28 Assemblymen just as suddenly endorsed him, thus leaving an insufficient number to validate Ky's candidacy. Even before the filing deadline passed, Tarn dropped from the race. Few observers believe the Tam candidacy was anything other than...
...reporting on his operation, Reston whimsically attributed the attack to Henry Kissinger. "The first stab of pain went through my groin," the columnist wrote, when Chinese officials disclosed that Kissinger's visit to Peking had taken place while Reston was being kept out of the capital. "In my delirium," he went on, "I could see Mr. Kissinger floating across my bedroom ceiling grinning at me out of the corner of a hooded ricksha...