Word: rigidities
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Carl Jung, who lived with great vigor until the age of 85, saw aging as a process of continuous inward development ("individuation"), with important psychic changes occurring right up to the time of death. "Anyone who fails to go along with life remains suspended, stiff and rigid in mid-air," Jung wrote. "That is why so many people get wooden in old age; they look back and cling to the past with a secret fear of death in their hearts. From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life...
...after all, the highest kind of freedom. We don't require that the world jump either one way or the other. Nor does the world expect much of us. We may make choices that were closed to our parents by circumstances and to the younger set by rigid, rigid conformity...
...does suggestion. Barber reports that the wart count among some New York schoolchildren fell dramatically after their warts were painted with chemically inert dyes identified as effective medication. Barber also discounts feats of strength under hypnosis, such as the ability of a man to make his body so rigid that he can be stretched like a plank between two chairs. "Practically all normally awake persons can remain suspended between two chairs while supported only by the head and ankles," Barber says...
...factionalized America and the need for reconciliation between young and old, black and white, left and right. New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay echoed the predominant plea by calling for a "new center" in the country's politics. Speaking at Williams College in Massachusetts, he rejected rigid "attachment to the simple and the absolute." Lindsay espoused "not a compromise between the uncompromising extremes, not a compromise with our conscience, but a commitment to rational change by rational means." He added: "The revolutionary defiles the flag and the reactionary deifies it. Both offend reason and common sense...
...gained by Canada's waiting for an acute crisis to develop-as the British, French and Germans have done in the past-before making long-overdue rate changes? Although the I.M.F. rules are designed to promote stability in world finance, they have proved to be overly rigid. Genuine stability is achieved when exchange rates reflect real value, and the market may often be the best mechanism for determining that value. If all goes smoothly, Canada's bold step may quicken moves toward a freer, more flexible system of exchange rates throughout the non-Communist world...