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...presented to him, to take the major role," says Lightfoot. "When white society has told you, and reinforced it in many ways, that you are no good, many patients cannot differentiate race from their real ability." Lightfoot points out that blacks have no monopoly on this symptom: it can also be found among whites, although not for the same reasons...
...into a historic and ominous strike. The first national postal stoppage in U.S. history and the largest walkout ever against the Federal Government, the postal strike almost immediately began to strangle the operations of commerce, impair Government functions and vastly inconvenience the public. It was also an acutely painful symptom of the fragility of the institutions that are crucial to the nation's orderly functioning. It could well set a new pattern of ruinous civil service strikes...
Like other anxiety states, stage fright triggers defense mechanisms, but they ultimately fail because the fear "enlarges with the passage of time; the defense cannot alter the fixed moment of the performance." That failure induces a second-phase symptom: "the delusion that the audience is convening for an occasion of devastating ridicule and humiliation for the performer. This delusion is frankly paranoiac...
...recent months, the practice has not only risen to alarming proportions but has emerged as the symptom of a deep-seated economic malaise. Last year the illegal flight of lire rose to $2.25 billion, enough to wipe out the benefits of Italy's overall trade surplus and create a $1.37 billion balance of payments deficit. A winter wave of strikes cost many industries the equivalent of a month's production. The resulting wage increases (average: 15%) have been followed by rising prices...
LIBERALISM (1953): "Liberal is what everybody would like to be." Yes, of course, and why? Very simple; because we are all Americans. Even the reactionaries today call themselves the "true" liberals. If there's anything wrong with America today, it could be summed up in one symptom: that Americans don't quite know what it is to be m liberal-joyously, thankfully, proudly liberal. For America is the supreme embodiment of the Great Liberal Tradition and if, for as much as one generation, America forgets d what it is to be liberal, then America will no longer...