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...psychotherapist proceeds logically from this view of people. The therapist must deal with those humans who cannot restrain the characteristic primitive urges of the species. He must reconstruct the individual's defenses, enabling the Freudian neurotic to hold back the tide of violence which lurks behind people's social veneer...
...three-story townhouse-style buildings with a campus dormitory atmosphere. Each floor will have a central living room surrounded by four apartments. Set up to accommodate three soldiers, each suite consists of a bedroom, bathroom and lounge area. The carpeted, air-conditioned townhouses, furnished in motel-modern plastic and veneer, will be nestled together with landscaped courtyards and lawns as well as training areas...
This underlying system of attitudes is more manifestly at work in the Twin Oaks community than in Walden Two, because the former lacks much of the scientistic veneer which cloaks these attitudes in Skinner's work. Behaviorism is, in this context, a vehicle by which Skinner advances the prejudices of an age in the imposing guise of "objective understanding...
...general, they have feigned adherence to "the science game" only to give a veneer of respectability to practices antipathetic to the ethics of a university. These practices are not random lapses; they stem from a philosophy that denies the intellectual and moral premises on which a university is based. Universities are built on traditions of open-mindedness, intellectual discipline, and precision of thought and expression. Leary and Alpert show no devotion to these things...
...puerile and false virility in themselves and their sons. Until elite women begin to protest the reification and devaluation of women in general, their influence and dignity in male institutions will always be at the mercy of a misogyny which can break through even the most cultivated and civilized veneer. Adrienne Rich