Word: rigidities
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Plumbing the Japanese mentality for the causes of young people's death wishes, Psychiatrist Takeyama argues: the Confucian precept of unquestioning obedience to elders and superiors was deliberately perverted by the Tokugawa Shogunate (which ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868) to maintain a rigid caste system. Obedience is still drummed into modern Japanese youth. But, says Dr. Takeyama: "While it remains a basic influence in their unconscious makeup, it conflicts sharply with their conscious striving to behave in accordance with modern Western ways...
...lies in the bone-dry wit and intelligence with which Novelist Austen ordered and fixed this stately marital bear garden; no novelist, before or since, ever trod more precisely the thin borderlines that divide the heart from the purse, the ambitions from the conventions, the rigid rules of the game from the fibbing, cheating gambits of the desperate players. The game is tough often to the point of grimness, but it is always comedy, never tragedy. "Let other pens," wrote plain Jane coolly, "dwell on guilt and misery...
...this the allies were agreed, and if they had little idea of what to do next, their unanimity was real. The West Germans quit believing that the British were a little too ready to negotiate with Russia; the British no longer thought that Chancellor Adenauer was being too rigid...
...first sign of his illness is increasing anxiety when the compulsive routine is disturbed, and he soon feels guilty because he is "not working well enough," starts to worry inordinately about details, stuffs his pockets with memos. He cannot take a real vacation. He is a perfectionist-and rigid perfectionism is viewed as a symptom of unconscious guilt. By now, the businessman has something to feel guilty about: he has neglected his family, he feels isolated from his fellow men (especially subordinates), and he gets in a panic because he feels unable to love...
...this emphasis on individual work and achievement makes the scholar peculiarly fitted to act as social elevator boy in modern society. Parents who seeks paths by which their children can transcend the increasingly rigid stratification of American society have discovered that education is practically the only road to the top. Only in the schools can the youngster learn to prefer competition and success to complacency and group approval. And only by succeeding in school can he convince the marketplace that he has the talents it demands. Indeed, the symbolic degree has become so important that even those born...