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...some observers took the Red peace feelers, together with the Soviet backdown at Berlin, as a symptom of a general Red retrenchment in Europe, supposedly designed to free the Reds for allout action in Asia. Porphyrogenis himself seemed to support this view. "The atmosphere of appeasement," he said, "that has developed in recent weeks on the European scene makes peace [in Greece] seem possible...
...modern psychiatry is the subject of guilt. The denial of personal sin, he holds, has done more to keep man from God, and to disintegrate society, than any other single factor. Psychiatrists are enemies of man, Sheen says, whenever they view the sense of guilt as an undesirable symptom and try to get rid of it by convincing the patient either 1) that he was not responsible for his sinful actions, or 2) that such actions are really healthy and normal...
...with infectious moral fervor; few recent books on "world affairs" have made more sense on the essentials of the present crisis. It points out that the greatest menace confronting the West today is not an outside force from "another world." Communism is part and product of Western civilization, a symptom-like a fever sore-of its crisis. Western civilization produced the Communists, and gave them their strongest weapons. The Communists do not win their victories simply by launching "offensives" against the West; they win whenever and wherever a vacuum is created by the failure of Western power, Western nerve...
Snarling Plan E was a major victory for the Mayor; it proved that his latest machine is coming of age. The "Battle of the Plans" is only a symptom of an underlying tangle in Boston. As long as people are willing to pay the price of bossism because they think that it serves them well-and many Bostonians consider Curley a fine Mayor-they can expect these debacles at almost regular intervals...
...total of some 3,750,000 "excessive drinkers." Another 56,000,000-odd are social drinkers, who can take it or leave it alone. About 60% of the problem drinkers are "symptomatic drinkers," i.e., they are mentally ill to start with, and drinking is a symptom, not a cause of their illness. With the other 40%, the trouble seems to start with their drinking rather than their personalities. They may be "occupational drinkers" (e.g., bartenders, salesmen, newspaper reporters), who fall into the habit because of their jobs; or "compensatory drinkers," who try to forget the drabness of their lives...