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Quakers Shakers. Raised as a good go-to-meeting Methodist, Psychiatrist Sargant examined the dramatic conversions made by Methodism's Founder John Wesley, decided that they fitted Pavlov's pattern. After early failures, Wesley turned his back on appeals to the intellect, made a frank and crude assault on the emotions. He preached so eloquently and graphically of the horrors of hell-fire.and brimstone that the wayward among his hearers found the prospect an unbearable stress, says Dr. Sargant. He quotes Wesley as describing meeting after meeting at which the penitent burst into tears, cried aloud, sweated profusely, shook...
...believes that every important conversion recorded in the New Testament (most notably that of Saul of Tarsus, persecutor of Christians, to Paul the Apostle) was of this type. In modern times, thinks Sargant, many conversions to and from Communism (e.g., Arthur Koestler's carefully recorded experiences) followed the pattern. So, too, did religious and pagan dedications among Voodooists in Haiti, among some tribes on the west coast of Africa, among the Quakers (says Sargant, because they "shook and trembled before the Lord"), among the lamas of Tibet and among U.S. revivalists, including those who induce frenzies by the handling...
...clear, simple idea: "Essentially a department store is a big, empty box built around a central circulation core, with the walls closed to provide ample storage." In a move away from glass, he sheathed the box in travertine, employing hexagonal forms to give the façade the overall pattern of a honeycomb, set in slit windows (Rotterdam shoppers like to check materials in the sunlight). Here and there he opened up the curtain wall with bands of windows for the interior restaurant and executive offices...
...major problem Architect Breuer had to solve was wished on him by a few fluke misses by the Luftwaffe and the decision of the Rotterdam planning commission to incorporate the beneficiaries of those misses-two surviving buildings-into the pattern of the widened street, making it necessary to bring the building line forward at each street corner. To avoid an L-shaped building, Breuer hit on the idea of letting sculpture take care of the bulge...
...from their badly gilded cages: "Lucky Jim will not accumulate enough money to change his way of life. He is never going to starve, but he cannot have a dramatic rise in the world ... It is an unexpected result of the Welfare State that it should make the social pattern not less rigid but much more...