![]() ![]() Waller ( The Forbidden Orchid, 2016) hammers home the immense difficulties that girls in Camille’s situation face. At the last minute, despite her reservations, Bea decides to come as well. ![]() Desperate, Camille turns to Annabelle, a girl she admires but hardly knows, who offers to drive her to Mexico for pills that will induce an abortion. Complicating the situation are Texas’ prohibitive abortion laws: it’s a year after Senator Wendy Davis’ filibuster and Governor Rick Perry’s restrictive bill. Camille knows she can’t have a baby now, but she doesn’t want to involve her parents, and her best friend, Bea, can’t reconcile her religious views with Camille’s decision. Then one missed period becomes two, and Camille faces the truth: her first sexual encounter, a one-time thing, has led to pregnancy. Camille has just wrapped a successful summer with her theater troupe and is ready for a prestigious theater camp with her crush. ![]()
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![]() If anyone was in a position to move Oswald around prior to the assassination and control the cover-up afterwards, it was Angleton. After the assassination, Angleton and his closest associate, Ray Rocca, served as the gateway between the Warren Commission and the CIA. They held a file on Oswald predating the assassination by at least three years. The most consistently prominent players in the assassination saga continue to be James Jesus Angleton and his counterintelligence staff. (The character of Hugh Montague (Harlot) is based on James Angleton) From Norman Mailer's novel Harlot's Ghost. ![]() "I would have told Bobby that if the job was done properly, I would not be able to give a correct answer." ![]() "What," I asked him, "would you have answered?" "Yes," he said, "McCone was just the man to ask." I can trust John McCone and I asked him if they had killed my brother, and I asked him in a way that he couldn't lie to me, and he said he had looked into it and they hadn't. ![]() One night he began to talk of muffled suspicions and stifled half-certainties, and said to me, "I had my doubts about a few fellows in your agency, but I don't anymore. ![]() ![]() Without a certain comfort level among team members, a foundation of trust is not possible and Team Building will be very difficult to achieve. This outcome occurs when team members are reluctant to be vulnerable with one another and are unwilling to admit their mistakes, weaknesses, or need for help. There are five potential dysfunctions of a team in Lencioni’s model: It’s always a very popular topic on the Leadership Development Training we run so here’s an overview of what this model is all about. ![]() Like Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory (1954), there are five levels, and each must be completed to move on to the next one. ![]() To improve the functioning of a team, it is critical to understand the type and level of dysfunction. ![]() According to him, all teams have the potential to be dysfunctional. One of the most interesting models of team effectiveness was developed by Patrick Lencioni (2005). ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a beautiful scene, both because it captures not just the anti-industrial fantasies of its time so powerfully and because it contains within itself the contradictions that so often led to the dissolution of such communities – note that it is the women doing the washing – as well as a reminder in the form of the circled buses, and their echoes of the travels of the Mormons and other groups, of the persistence of the fantasies and dreams that drive such communities. While women wash laundry and sing by a river, a community gathers for the evening, their trucks and buses “circled like bison against the wind”, their leader saluting the sun from the top of the bus at the circle, naked children darting through the trees on the fringes of the camp. The novel opens on a riverbank in upstate New York in 1968. ![]() These dreams – and more particularly their persistence and their cost – are front and centre in Arcadia, American writer Lauren Groff’s second novel, which depicts the foundation, corruption and finally the dissolution and the aftermath of that dissolution of one such community. Although the literature concerned with imaginary utopias is extensive, the list of novels devoted to life in utopian communities is comparatively short, a fact that seems curious when one considers what perfect fictional fodder the slow dying of their dreams makes. ![]() |