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...promotion hasn't been exactly tame: horses, helicopters, even parachutists descending from the skies onto the banks of the Thames with bottles of Beaujolais lashed to their plummeting bodies. A well-greased media lap it up every time...
...persuasion is one of the most glorious gifts that God can give us," McClintic writes, "but it says in James, 'The tongue is a very unruly member.' (A more expansive thought along that track from the King James version of the Bible is 'but the tongue no man can tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.') I abused this gift in a world of loose morals and loose living. I could stimulate or excite other men into becoming part of different programs or buying various products. When it came to communicating the importance of an idea...
...Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, is a longtime student of various therapies and how they work. His definition of madness is tamer than it sounds. He uses the word to indicate the inner turmoil and contradictions that are present in everyone. But his conclusion is anything but tame: the average consumer of therapy is likely to be influenced, and perhaps overwhelmed, by the emotional problems of therapists. The bad news is that many patients are more damaged by their therapists than they realize, and some actually end up seeking out one disturbed therapist after another. The good news...
...Tame and Tame Again...
Shakespeare, of course, never wrote about a new editor coming to grips with his paper, but Janeway's experience has become a study in the frustration of learning to run a big-city daily. He must tame a sometimes scrappy staff of 400 editors and reporters while trying to leave his imprint on the paper. At the same time, the Globe faces increased competition from the Boston Herald, a once-feeble tabloid that has come alive under Rupert Murdoch. No wonder that Janeway, a wry, reflective man not easily given to emotion, occasionally looks weary. "I feel like...