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...effort to figure out Bernhard's financial activities, the commission had to thread its way through a labyrinth of deals that began in the late 1950s. Lockheed officials, who were distressed that Prince Bernhard favored Northrop F-5s over their Starfighter F-104s, thought the prince might appreciate a Jetstar plane for his private use. When the prince declined, Lockheed's European agent, Fred Meuser, suggested that $1 million in cash might be appropriate, and the money was channeled to the late Colonel "Chouli" Pantchoulidzew, a former officer of the Imperial Russian Guard who had been a permanent...
...common thread running through all of the explanations for the injuries is that Radcliffe women are beginning to take their sports more seriously...
...sustain an entire book. It leads to an exceedingly curious, disjointed approach: one moment Kearns is describing in the first person her relationship with Johnson; next she goes into descriptions of his childhood and emotional development; and from there she discusses his political career, really quite conventionally. The thread that is supposed to run through it all is a focus on Johnson as a person, but the trail often grows faint...
Instead, Skinner constructs a meticulous chronological listing of his life's events. (A short section at the end which backtracks to follow the thread of psychological curiosity through his life is an exception.) But Skinner has a purpose for the resulting "and then" paratactical tedium of his style. Even his detractors laud his achievements in the development of teaching machines and in animal training, and grudgingly admit the success of behavior modification with autistic children and the mentally ill. But the concept of a genetically-and environmentally-programmed existence, of an a-responsible, un-free person rebounding from punishment...
...their young children, the best "learning environments" for educating them-and having done so, been found winners. The children of these elect "cope" well, "adapt" well, are able to assert themselves without "anxiety," get along with others without too much "frustration." In both instances one detects at least a thread or two of Utopian thinking. Whether it be prayer and Christian piety or psychological "insight" and the "sensitivity" that is offered in "groups" or by individual experts, the point is to apply what one has been trying to obtain (God's grace, a psychiatrist's knowledge) to children...