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Break with Freud. Jung classified basic personality types as extraverts or introverts, then added a breakdown by function: "With perception, you know something is there. Thinking tells you what it is. Feeling tells you what it is worth to you or to others. And intuition tells what the damn thing comes from or goes to." Finally, in the persistence of religious movements throughout history, Jung saw an archetypal need for a religious attitude. A religion did not need to be formalized, he insisted; but to be emotionally healthy, a man must have made his peace with the unseen and perhaps...
...Breakdown in the Cadres. On a stopover in Hong Kong, Columnist Joseph Alsop, who rarely finds much to encourage him, listened to the latest stories from refugees trickling out of Red China and detected signs of "a breakdown of the iron, super-Spartan discipline which the Chinese Communists enforced with such astonishing success during their first twelve years in power." The dedication and austerity of the party cadres were once the party's pride, and officials boasted that the Communists had at last freed China from the ancient practice of "squeeze" and bribery. Under the pressure of famine, Alsop...
...have become fairly common, and so have raids by hungry villagers on the carefully locked-up communal grain stores. The police-enforced compliant silence of the people is being broken, too. Bitter rhymes and slogans mocking the Communists are now quite often reported by refugees." Concluded Columnist Alsop: "The breakdown of discipline must mean that the conditions are beginning to exist in which a small spark can light a gigantic fire...
...company is building for the Titan. Explains Technical Animation's President Stanley L. Schwartz, 41: "They had to show why a valve is the right valve before the guy actually got to operate it." On three separate screens, trainees see a cross section of the whole silo, a breakdown of each of its operating segments, and what they do in action...
...agreed that it would have been better for the prestige of British art if Landseer had died young. Yet that was a grace that was denied him. In 1839. when his love of 16 years, the recently widowed Duchess of Bedford, refused to marry him, he suffered a nervous breakdown, and when she died, he went quite balmy. He was at times homicidal (once he nearly killed the duchess' daughter by unceremoniously sitting on her chest as she lay abed with bronchitis). But he lived and painted on and on, dying at 71, to leave behind some...