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...first 150 pages of The Aquitaine Progression we know what the conspiracy is; we know what Converse has to do. The other 500 pages seem more an exercise in how well Ludlum can invent traps for Converse and how much we can believe in his paranoid vision of a corrupt world where anyone can be bought and everyone is being watched. The traps Ludlum invents are singularly unoriginal. At one point, Ludlum even has Converse traveling around Europe disguised as a priest...
...GENERALLY THERAPISTS are well adjusted to the society in which they live. I don't think that's a good thing," says Jeffrey M. Masson '64 "I think that the society in which we live is pretty decadent, corrupt. And what one really wants to teach people is to recognize that and take some sort of stand against it. I would teach people to question everything, don't take any shit from anybody and don't listen to authority...
...think I have a tendency to become disillusioned. I become initially very enthusiastic about a field and then as I discover the realities of the field I become disillusioned," he says. "I didn't believe that psychoanalysis was corrupt. I believe...
Other Administration policies got mixed reviews. U.S. covert activities in Central America drew fire from the majority ("We should not be helping bloody, corrupt dictatorships"), as did President Reagan's arms policy ("He seems to be heading us toward nuclear death...
...spring of 1982, A'Roterick McLaughlin, a 15-year veteran of the Chicago police force, went undercover to nab officers who dealt drugs, sometimes peddling the stuff from their squad-car windows. He played the role of a neophyte dealer, wearing miniature microphones when he met with corrupt police. His work led to the conviction of ten policemen and the indictment of three others, none of whom have yet started serving any time in prison. It also made him a target for revenge...