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Though many believe that age accentuates personality characteristics, Dr. Butler notes that "certain personality features mellow or entirely disappear. Others prove insulating and protective, although they might formerly have been impairing, such as a schizoid disposition." Some doctors suggest that neuroses and some psychoses burn themselves out with age, and note that the rate of mental disorders declines after...
...demand a conception," says Arkin, "because there isn't much difference between me and Yossarian." Viewing Arkin in the film of Catch-22 is like watching Lew Alcindor sink baskets or Bobby Fischer play chess. The man seems made for the role. Fear rides on his back like a schizoid chimp. His voice climbs from neurosis...
Hubbard's teachings are full of schizoid paradoxes. On the one hand, he speaks of the good basic nature of With Love?" homo sapiens trying to enslave Thetans with "electronics." Thetans themselves are rather godlike beings, yet they are curiously prone to infantile pranks like stealing, "nipping," and "blanketing," Hubbard is here to save us, but we must pay dearly for our salvation. Scientology equals Freedom, we are told; yet one must not only pay for processing, one must join the organization. Members of Hubbard's Sea Org (organization) are required to sign a billion year contract. Security Checks, recently...
...attraction of his eye to airplanes could indicate a basic recurring dream, or even knowledge based on earlier experience (i. e. he knows how to fly-an implausible plot point in the film). But the airplane footage also qualifies as pure directorial observation, so the shot function is schizoid and cannot be clearly applied to the story...
Although they now live in what one Indian calls "a schizoid world of fractured loyalties," all Indian leaders agree that the best of their ancient heritage is a priceless resource. To many white Americans, who are constantly told these days how much they have to feel guilty about, the demands of yet one more minority may seem almost more than the conscience can bear. Yet Indians can hardly be expected to keep their peace just because they have only lately joined the queue of those vociferously demanding social justice. If they continue to be rejected, many young Indians will continue...