Word: subconsciouses
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COLUMNIST JOE KLEIN'S "THE BLINK Presidency" [Feb. 28] persuasively captured Bush's tendency to pursue both domestic and foreign policies on the basis of "instantaneous, subconscious decision making." This is an unfortunate tendency. The stakes, as in the Iraq fiasco, have turned out to be devastatingly high for our...
It probably doesn’t help, then, that Harvard has a reputation, even among its own students, as a place of inexhaustibly ambitious “Type A” personalities. Nearly all of the friends and classmates to whom I spoke pointed to self-imposed expectations as a...
Bush is the ultimate "Blink" President, to use author Malcolm Gladwell's catchy term, and recent title, for instantaneous, subconscious decision making. The slogan on Gladwell's book jacket-"Don't Think-Blink!"-is a perfect mantra for an attention- deficit-disordered society, and an apt description of the electric...
"It's almost impossible to talk about it," said Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster, "without being smeared by it." Reaction to the verdict raised the familiar visage of the Angry White Male (now joined by the Angry White Female, outraged by the jury's soft-pedaling of domestic abuse). "The...
On set, say colleagues and stars, Abrams is cheerful and eager--"a kid in a candy store," says Garner--but perfectionist. For Lost's pilot, he bought a passenger jet, over the objections of his crew, who wanted to use a smaller plane, and had it chopped up and shipped...