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...often been used as a shield for lawlessness. Those of us who know and love her are familiar with Harvard's proclivity for using rules, regulations, and public authority, if need be, as a shield for anything from absurdity to outright criminality...
Grinspoon said that the forms of reported sightings often involve "two of the major symbols of both the conscious and the unconscious mind-the breast and the penis. "The relevance of these observations becomes clear," he said, "when we look at the typical pictures of the UFO's. They are typically described as 'saucer-shaped' or 'cigarshaped' objects (breast-like or phallic objects...
...Especially relevant to the UFO sightings," he said, "are the often vivid mental images which occur when drowsiness and fatigue begin to overcome us and yet we remain awake...
...Studies suggest that a significant and perhaps increasing proportion of our population falls into the category of diagnosable mental illness," Grinspoon said. "Faced with high levels of environmental or intro-psychic stress, both groups, healthy and ill, may revert to more primitive modes of thinking, often characterized by magical explanations and symbolic usage...
...though, the New Left is one part idealism, two parts the posture of idealism. Pretensions exceed performance, and New Leftese is one measure of the distance between the two. The New Left justifiably aspires to regenerate the body politic. But all too often New Leftese turns out to be a jeer trying to do the work of a jeremiad. The New Left prides itself on having, in Oglesby's words, "restored the possibility of ideological thought." But New Leftese mostly favors ideas that can be daubed on a placard. American radicalism is in danger of making itself voluble without...