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What this amusing little concept means I suppose, is that the same republicans who one convention night cheered wildly and sincerely for Barry Goldwater could the next day embrace platform and a candidate that will accomplish as little of what Goldwater really wants as will the Democrats. The embrace is indeed brief and for most observers came away from the Chicago convention with a wrong impression that Goldwater, and Eisenhower or Nixon, was the centimental hero of the Republican (I hesitate to call them...
...some critics, less out of conviction than from a belief that Goldwater's views were unpopular with the voters. Goldwater's Conservatism (always with a capital "C") is, after all, a rather extreme brand. It is based, pre-eminently, on the strictest possible construction of the Constitution, a concept most voters don't even understand, much less enthusiastically embrace...
...idea of "possession" persisted in Western thought down to the 19th century, Huxley noted. At that time it was replaced by the concept of a "dynamic subconscious," which motivated an individual from within. But he went on to point out that, in subjective terms, such moments of inspiration actually seem to be visitations from outside...
...Freud patients but mainly from the famed Anna O., a patient of Breuer's in whose case Freud became interested. She liked to talk about her symptoms because somehow that relieved her. Anna O. described the process as "chimney sweeping"; for Freud it was the foundation of the concept of psychological catharsis...
...Master Concept. In enclosing space, Becket shows little of the imagination or pioneering spirit of a Wright or Saarinen. Becket makes no apology, feels that his sort of made-to-order architecture is ideally suited to the varying needs of business. "The one who takes the position that he is primarily a creator and that his services must be sought," he says, "is headed for failure...