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...such rituals lies in the imagination of the threatened party. When you threaten someone, you rely on his foresight cooperating with his memory. Bruno Bettelheim in The Informed Heart, a study of the concentration camps, described the power that the SS used on prisoners: "Childlike feelings of helplessness were created much more effectively by the constant threat of beatings than by actual torture. During a real beating one could, for example, take pride in suffering manfully, in not giving the foreman or the guard the satisfaction of groveling before him. No such emotional protection was possible against the mere threat...
...student government will be in a "better position" to gain real power in University policy-making. Will the new structure created by the report really give student government more power in decision-making? Considering the student government's past spinelessness, this is highly unlikely. A committee chairman had to threaten resignation to force the Assembly to even include a question about greater student control on next week's referendum...
...three leaders told students in Afro-American Studies 142b, "Communism and Marxism in Black American Life," that Blacks must abandon peaceful efforts toward liberation, and stop working within a hostile system. Nazis and other right-wing groups are now organizing many whites into violent hate-groups, and will threaten Blacks "unless we smash the hell out of them." Aaron Estis '80, a representative of the Communist Workers Party, told an audience of about...
Terry Nelson, director of the John J. Harland Boys Club, which Hill had joined at the age of six, remembers him as "a very vulnerable kid." Says Nelson: "He was afraid of large boys. They would threaten him sometimes, and he would do what they said to do." Two other members of the same boys club were Anthony Carter, 9, whose body was discovered last summer, and Joseph Bell, 16, who dis appeared March...
...Halem's color graphic terminals "is designed to play information from the shuttle in a format that is easiest for the ground controller to read," he said. If either the shuttle or the fuel tanks go astray and threaten to land in populated areas, "my display will light up and warn the controllers" who may then elect to destroy them, he added...