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...opinion of most psychiatrists. The late Dr. Edmund Bergler found certain traits present in all homosexuals, including inner depression and guilt, irrational jealousy and a megalomaniac conviction that homosexual trends are universal. Though Bergler conceded that homosexuals are not responsible for their inner conflicts, he found that these conflicts "sap so much of their inner energy that the shell is a mixture of superciliousness, fake aggression and whimpering. Like all psychic masochists, they are subservient when confronted by a stronger person, merciless when in power, unscrupulous about trampling on a weaker person...
...boom bah, yippeda, yippeda, yipe. Yo ho heave ho, bibbedy, boppety, boo poop be doo dah. Zippy poo bang wow joo gee pow, pow pow, pow. Yap, sap, flap, trap, blap, bongada bongada...
Simple Uncle Sap-ism? No; other new attitudes, drawn from two decades of experience, have clarified the giver-getter relationship. Only the naive among the givers expect lavish thanks; only the naive among the getters darkly suspect concealed U.S. motives. The U.S. now knows that arm twisting by withdrawing aid rarely works-and it usually knows better than to let foreign governments attempt aid-or-else blackmail. Moreover, the U.S. has backed away from any grandiose dreams of remaking the world; receiving nations nonetheless candidly want a large helping of U.S. machines, techniques and comforts...
...Death Row" wait for heart disease or cancer "or one of the less predictable trapdoors" to get them. He comes to an uncommercialized Caribbean island called Amerigo. He falls in love with a rundown resort. The owner has it up for sale. Atlas offers to back him. The poor sap says...
...going to betray Ceylon to the Marxists." Ceylon's influential Buddhist monks, alarmed by the Marxist infiltration, began turning against the buxom Prime Minister. They particularly denounced a proposal, put forward by the Communists in the government, to permit the legal tapping of coconut trees and turn the sap into toddy, thus heading off illicit bootlegging and bringing new revenue into the treasury. When Mrs. Bandaranaike tried to win back the monks, who practice temperance, by promising to make Buddhism Ceylon's official religion, they refused for fear of coming under state control...