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...takes Long Boy a while to realize just how gifted his precocious partner is. Cool and resourceful, she "smells out money like a honey bee smells out woodbine." Eventually he expands their operations. "Let's go ramify a big, fat farmer," he cries; and playing more on human greed than gullibility, he devises imaginative new swindles that net thousands. It takes nerve, but Addie thrives on "that crawly, goose-bumpy feeling I always got before we did business...
...type of crime often fits the behavior that provoked it. Theft, for instance, is often stimulated by the victim's negligence, swindles by his greed, and blackmail by his guilt. Murder can be invited by belligerence: in 1969 a national study of bus drivers showed that three who were killed during robberies had vowed not to let "any punk kid" rob them, and had carried and tried to use guns in violation of company rules. In other cases, suicidal wishes have provoked murder-a phenomenon that the mother of Congressional Medal of Honor Winner Dwight Johnson may have recognized...
...usually showed up at railroad stations too early. The underlying reason, according to his biographer. Analyst Ernest Jones, was that Freud feared losing his home and ultimately his mother's breast-a "panic of starvation, which must have been in its turn a reaction to some infantile greed." Poor Freud! What would he have done if he had had to while away his anxieties in an airline terminal, listening to tinned music and scratchy announcements of flight cancellations? Analysis might never have progressed past the anal stage...
...such a title, Robert Coles could at first be mistaken for one of the people he desperately deplores-that complacent horde of pigeonholers, polltakers, politicians, consumer experts and scholars who seem bent on reducing vast groups of individual Americans to some neatly labeled lowest common denominator of fear, status, greed or need. Coles, after all, is a Harvard psychiatrist. He has been seen in the company of notebook and tape recorder. For more than a decade he has studied and written voluminously about troubled children, blacks, migrant workers-all subjects that are now ritually lamented in near-faceless collectivity...
...corporate lives, and moved to the south of France, rock has changed drastically. Musically it is softer now and more lyrically inquisitive. With the Beatles having broken up for good, the age of the big group is at a historical turning point. Among the surviving groups, mediocrity and sheer greed abound to such a degree that Bill Graham, sick of it all, has announced the permanent closing of both the Fillmores West and East, two houses which greatly helped rock come of age in the '60s (TIME, May 10). Facing the Stones are as many unanswered questions as Mick...