Word: rigidities
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Sadat is not the only one out on a limb. It is possible that the middleman in the current diplomatic exercise?the U.S.?and the two antagonists could all emerge feeling ill-used. The U.S. appears increasingly convinced that the Israelis have grown too rigid, as indeed they have. The Israelis feel that the Americans, particularly Rogers and his State Department, are so anxious to restore U.S. influence in the Arab world that they are willing to impose unacceptable risks on Israel. Golda Meir's government maintains that its policy of tenacity will compel the Arabs to come around...
Honecker proved a dutiful deputy to Ulbricht, affecting the same wide-brimmed Panama hats and gray suits that are the old man's trademarks. Politically, Honecker, now 58, is, if anything, even more doctrinaire and rigid than Ulbricht. "Honecker is a stubborn dogmatist," says Werner Baum, a former East German official who defected two years ago. The years of solitary confinement left their mark on Honecker, an obsessively neat man who wears heavy hornrimmed spectacles and is known as "Granite Face" among East Europeans. "If he were not so utterly dedicated to orthodoxy, one could say he was totally...
...little less principle and a little more pragmatism, even less belief in a rigid domino theory, would be helpful. "No compromise" is a great battle cry but usually a poor strategy; "non-negotiable demands" are the stock-in-trade of negotiators, but a dangerous faith...
Black and Blue. Reich's ideas and Bean's psyche were made for each other. Reich's therapy was designed to shatter what he called "emotional armor," and Bean's New England background had buckled him up tight in rigid inhibitions that ten years of classical analysis had failed to shake. Introduced to Reich's writings by a friend, Bean was fascinated by his theory that emotional and physical health depend on the free flow through the body of orgone energy, which finds its full expression in the Reichian orgasm-a happening that is physiologically...
...also the source of all his joys, his ability to love, to laugh, and, most important for us, to be creative. By protecting himself against the hell within himself, he also cuts, himself off from the heaven within. In the extreme instance, we have the obsessional person, flat, tight, rigid, frozen, controlled, cautious, who can't laugh or play or love, or be silly or trusting or childish. His imagination, his intuitions, his softness, his emotionality tend to strangulated or distorted...