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лента.ру пишет об обстоятельствах смерти журналиста Ивана Сафронова:

Две девушки из дома напротив рассказали, что 2 марта услышали глухой звук падения и увидели мужчину, лежащего под козырьком подъезда.

Одна из них подумала, что это просто пьяница, другая решила, что человек мог упасть из окна подъезда между четвертым и пятым этажами. Девушкам показалось, что человек еще некоторое время пытался приподняться.

Они позвонили в "Скорую помощь", но там им сказали, что "собирать вечером в пятницу всех пьяных в Москве мы не можем. Понаблюдайте за мужчиной и, если не встанет сам и не уйдет, повторите вызов через полчаса".

Мужчина не вставал, а затем и перестал шевелиться. Девушки повторно позвонили в "скорую", но на момент ее приезда Сафронов был уже мертв.

Кошмар какой!

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After exchange of the usual niceties, I asked him [Skinner] why he had chosen psychology. His reply surprised me, br Skinner said that as an undergraduate he had no interest in psychology. His ideal was to change the world and he thought this was best accomplished by writing - Sartre came to the same conclusion. After he read John Watson's book On behaviorism, however, Skinner changed his mind and decided that psychology was the better strategy to achieve that prized goal. ibid. 137.

- domain change as an explicit goal

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The important point, however, is that individuals try to maintain consistency between the features of the categories to which they belong and their evaluation of the actions that define each category. The detection of an inconsistency can be accompanied by an uncomfortable feeling of shame or guilt. A disloyal thought toward a friend can provoke guilt because of the inconsistency between the thought and the features that define "a good friend." Many college-educated women who are enjoying professional careers experience more inconsistency than their grandmothers ove the category "mother." Adults with parents who belonged to different religious categories are also vulnerable to the tension of inconsistency. J. D.Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye, had a Jewish father and a Catholie mother, and his daughter has described the uncertainty her father felt as an adolescent in the 1930s when American anti-Semitism was virulent. [Kogan, 139]

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待々し桜と成れどひとり哉
machi-machishi sakura to naredo hitori kana

cherry blossoms
I waited and waited for...
I'm alone

translated by David Lanoue

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