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• When they apply for their first job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the right mixture of submissiveness and independence.
• From that moment on they are tested again and again --- by the psychologists, for whom testing is a big business, and by their superiors, who judge their behavior, sociability, capacity to get along, etc., their own and that of their wives.
The Normandy Landings
• The U. S. infantryman, while requiring far too luxurious logistical support, put up a nice fight in France; he was fresh well-fed, and unscarred by battle. But essentially what happened in Normandy was that Franklin Roosevelt beat Adolf Hitler, as surely as Wellington beat Napoleon at Waterloo.
Jack London
• He did not oppose labor organization nor balk at the strike as a weapon of labor; rather, he took his heroes and heroines from the labor movement and wove his plots within their struggles.
The Normandy Landings
• The mounting of the invasion armada was certainly a fine technological achievement; as was the production of the huge air fleets, with crews to man them. General Marshall's raising, equipping, and training of the land armies that poured into Normandy showed him to be an American Scharnhorst.
Methodology for Historical Study
• Also common in the natural sciences, the technician fallacy mistakenly identifies the discipline as a whole with certain parts of its technical implementation.
Jack London
• He was not content to appeal for the end of poverty and ignorance and disease; he called for the destruction of the system which was responsible for these evils.
• Secondly we embarked on a reasoned policy to ensure steady economic growth, the modernization of industry, and a proper balance between public and private expenditure. Thirdly by refusing totake refugห้องสมุดไป่ตู้--- as the previous Government had continually done in the preceding years--in panic-stricken stop-gap measures, we stimulated the return of international confidence.
• Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious. Their lives are no less empty than those of their subordinates.
• They are even more insecure in some respects. They are in a highly competitive race. To be promoted or to fall behind is not only a matter of salary but even more a rnatter of sell-esteem.
Jack London
• He poured into his writings all the pain of his life, the fierce hatred of the bourgeoisie that it had produced in him, and the conviction it had brought to him that world could be made a better place to live in if the exploited would rise up and take the management of society out of the hands of the exploiters.
• This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than one’s fellow-competitor creates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes of unhappiness and psychosomatic illness
Methodology for Historical Study
• It applies equally to traditional historians who view history as only the external and internal criticism of sources, and to social science historians who equate their activity with specific techniques.
The Normandy Landings
The Normandy Landings
• The landings were very chancy and might have ended disastrously. A pyramiding of mistakes and bad luck on German side gave Roosevelt success in his one audacious military move.
Jack London
• Consequently he swept aside not only the literature that pretended that ours is a society of sweetness and light, but also that which contended that the inculcation of the spirit of Christian fellowship would put an end to class controversy.
The Normandy Landings
• In Normandy the two men at last clashed in head-on armed shock. Hitler's mistakes gave Roosevelt the victory; just as at Waterloo it was less Wellington who won than Napoleon who lost.
A Political Speech
• Within a very short time of coming back into power the present government had taken steps to stabilize the position. First of all, we applied ourselves to identifying the root causes of our national ailments, examining contemporary evidence and refusing to be slaves to outmoded doctrinaire beliefs.
Anxiety
• The workers and employees are anxious because they live and die without ever having confronted the fundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectually productive, authentic and independent human beings.