He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence of a lifetime. An individual's armor that had been developed to resist pain and rejection… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
“Departing from Freud’s exclusively verbal analysis, Reich studied the body as well as the mind, and he concluded after years of clinical observation and social work that signs of disturbed behavior could be detected in a patient’s musculature, the slope… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
“The penis, often regarded as a weapon, is also a burden, the male curse.” — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them. — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
“in a male-dominated world, Reich suggested, there was an “economic interest” in the continued role of women as “the provider of children for the… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
“Too many people were obsessed with their heads and were alienated from their bodies, Perls believed, adding: “We have to lose our minds and… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
“An individual with genital character, according to Reich, was fully in contact with with his body, his drives, his environment- he possessed “orgastic potency,” the capacity to “surrender to the flow of energy in the orgasm without any inhibition…free of anxiety and unpleasure and unaccompanied by fantasies”; and while genital character alone would not assure enduring contentment, the individual at… — Gay Talese Copy Share
Wall Street bankers supposedly back the Yankees; Smith College girls approve of them. God, Brooks Brothers, and United States Steel are believed to be… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
“Group nudity could also be personally beneficial, according to psychologist Abraham M. Maslow, who believed that nudist camps or parks might be places where… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
“While the moral force of Judeo-Christian tradition and the law have sought to purify the penis, and to restrict its seed to the sanctified institution of matrimony, the penis is not by nature a monogamous organ. It knows no moral code. It was designed by nature for waste, it craves variety, and nothing less than castration will eliminate the allure… — Gay Talese Copy Share
The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise. — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
