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...College Psychologist Joseph Cautela, who has found more subtle approaches. Recently Cautela has successfully treated obese patients by training them to imagine that they are vomiting; the idea of nausea was enough to curb their appetites. He has also taught patients to overcome intense fear of flying with a step-by-step fantasy in which the patient "travels" to an airport, rewards himself with the thought of something he likes, such as meeting a friend, then "boards" a plane, thinks of his reward again, and finally manages to take off in imagination-and eventually in reality...
...goes on, for the umpteenth time in feminist literature, to trace the step-by-step development of girls into unhappy or "feminized" women ("Baby," "Girl," "Puberty," etc.). Feminist literature, perhaps in an attempt to get away from what has always been female dependence, often ends up repeating itself. Women get too wrapped up in their own way of saying things, trying to prove that they've psyched it out better than the others, and forget that their sisters have said the same thing just as well. Simone DeBeauvoir started this generation's plotting of the course of Where...
...potential participants were warned that any violence, even trashing, would earn them the dread label of "pig provocateur." The theme was driven home with a 135-page, multicolored manual, one of the most thorough guerrilla guide books in the U.S. today. Still another manual gave regional leaders a step-by-step guide to Mayday tactics. Instructions on how to choke some 21 key sites read: "The regional groups will be broken into units of 10-25 people. The units will move in waves, one unit in each wave, onto the road. They will sit down in a circle...
Cranston and Saxbe decided to work quietly and concentrate on step-by-step changes the would stir scant controversy. They enlisted the help of Hughes, a former Governor who felt helpless as a Senator ("You have no command. You have to do what other people decide at their times"), and Schweiker, who had served eight years in the House and was struck by how much more slowly the Senate moved...
...urban guerrilla, says Rubenstein, is that he is "short-circuiting" the classic concept of revolution. Theorists from Locke to Marx to Herbert Marcuse have always discussed revolution in terms of mass movements. The very vulnerability of the modern industrial world allows the urban terrorist to skip the painstaking, step-by-step process of organizing a mass revolutionary movement and then taking disruptive action...