Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggester asks, the belief in one's ability to do it-plus the ability to do it. The importance of the latter is often overlooked. Asks Barber: If a hypnotist could really induce deafness in a subject, as hypnotists are forever claiming to do, then how could a verbal command ("You can hear now") ever break the "trance...
Take two parts of insight and three parts of gall. Combine with chunks of meaty research, season with flammable forecasts and serve sizzling on a sharpened verbal skewer. The recipe describes the concoctions of Economist Pierre Rinfret, 46, the engaging, bumptious and increasingly conspicuous purveyor of advice to corporations, investment bankers, Presidents and other politicians...
...dismissed for his unorthodox ways, poor people and blacks (El Dorado has only a few) deprived of their rightful unemployment benefits. The complaints are utterly earnest, sincere, not negligible-yet not major, either. One feels that much of the confrontation in this community is still symbolic-repression still more verbal than actual, dissent still token and vague. It is perhaps significant that most of these dissenters have come to El Dorado-in a rather touching desire to help-from other communities. El Dorado has to import its rebels. But this does not mean that it fails to be troubled, indeed...
...drafted mental health programs and welfare reform legislation. As Massachusetts attorney general from 1967 to 1969, he handled many cases arguing the cause of civil rights. Officials sitting in meetings with Richardson are often fascinated by his endless, highly intricate doodles. They soon find that the verbal points he is making simultaneously with his doodles are just as well structured. "He speaks in paragraphs," says an admiring friend...
DESPITE such verbal battles, the two caucuses held together in one Harvard SDS during 1968-69, and the combination was potent. WSA-PL provided good organizers- "I don't like PL's ideas but their tactics are usually the best" was a refrain commonly muttered by SDS members at mass meetings. The New Left caucus, on the other hand, possessed more charismatic leaders like Michael Ansara '68, and a looser ideology more attractive to non-SDS students...