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After two study tours in an attempt to close that gap, Huntington still considers himself much more of a detached observor than an active policy maker or suggestor of policy. His dispassionate attitude toward what might conservatively be called the most dangerous world crisis in the last 25 years gives the feeling that Vietnam is, first of all, another fascinating case study, a testing ground for theory. "It's not hopeless by a longshot," Huntington remarks. "It's not too good, but it's not too bad. What we need is an awful lot of patience...
...rationally explained as exhibits of hypnotism. Stage magicians put their victims through all sorts of antics for the laughter and admiration of audiences.** Consequently U. S. people, even though they might know the value of hypnotism in sickness, fear causing the ridiculous or mischievous while under the suggestor's spell. They fear also that the skillful will to which they might submit themselves might make them perform unwonted acts after they awoke. Neither of these fears has authority. The physician using hypnotism makes no sport with his patients. Even in hypnosis a patient only most reluctantly performs against...
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