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Psychologists suggest that the killer is a "borderline" personality, someone who can function nearly normally in the day-to-day world. Like John Hinckley, who was also described as "borderline," the Tylenol killer can appear outwardly conventional. He may undergo transient psychosis intermixed with healthy intervals. Herbert Quay, professor of psychology at the University of Miami, notes chillingly: "My guess is that there are people around the killer right now who think he or she is odd, but not a threat to their lives...
...noble urges and crackpot illuminations. The process is a little like the custom of nominating obscure favorite sons at political conventions, not because they have any chance of being nominated or elected. God forbid. It is just nice to hear the name boom in the hall, to have the transient thrill, something to tell the grandchildren. The mere proposal of a constitutional amendment amounts to national billboarding for an idea, and perhaps even a way of drawing the poison out of certain issues by bringing them briefly into the hypothetical presence of the sacred text...
...once suggested: "Let us reflect whether there be any living writer whose silence we would consider a literary disaster." At work here may be the old harrumphing delusion of perspective: a Miniver Cheevy trick of eye and time Up close, most writers tend to look minor, to look like transient scribblers: aphids, small potatoes, twerps. One imagines a golden age long gone and a gray, leaden trivial present. effect is only heightened by the undiscriminating hype. One has to listen hard to hear any real thunder in the books...
When discussing any major College issue. Harvard administrators often mention what they call the campus's short institutional memory. With an entirely new generation of students every four years, administrators point out the difficulty in maintaining steady, progressive development in some areas of student concern because of the transient nature of the College. Instead, campus discussions and issues tend to recycle themselves, explain the officials who have been around long enough to see freshmen housed at the Quad and other figments of recent, but in student terms, distant, history...
...transient character of Harvard Square labor has allowed the Coop to pay its workers often shockingly low wages, scarcely above the minimum wage for some full-time stockboys and clerks. The plight of older Coop workers is often worse. Forced to cope with high inflation, they can find little comfort in the Coop's low wages. Employees have cited other labor problems: oppressive monitoring, inconsiderate assignment of tasks, and biased promotion procedures...