1 result for (book:tps2 AND heading:"delet session septemb 18 1972" AND stemmed:show)
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Susskind
negotiating
congratulations
show
excuse
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(The second question had to do with Seth’s ideas about our appearing on the David Susskind show, TV, in New York City, should we be asked. The publicity department at Prentice-Hall told Jane last week that this program was thinking of asking us to be on the show, and that possibly we’d be contacted this week.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
Now about your painting, I will speak later. And I am not telling you what to do. You do as you like about the show.
My advice is, stay away from it. There will be other shows, more advantageous. But do not use the symptoms as the reason for not going on the show.
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(The first day after Jane got the call, we thought of all the reasons we didn’t want to do the show—including the material on the show and Susskind in Daniel Logan’s book, The Reluctant Prophet. The next morning, I arose with the thought that all our stewing was after all academic—Jane’s symptoms would prevent us from being on the show to begin with —we couldn’t see her physically negotiating airports, taxis, hotels, studios, New York City, etc.)
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—as a rock bottom answer, that both of you can use to escape doing what you do not want to do. So the answer would be simply that you do not feel the show would be advantageous at this time.
[... 1 paragraph ...]
Give us a moment...There will be other shows, and he will be in a physical position to handle them. But you must understand that in your mind—now, you, Joseph—have thought of the symptoms as the reason why the answer (in the negative) would be given—and that is using the symptoms as an excuse. Do you see the difference?
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
Now. Beliefs: you felt that the discussion was needless because Ruburt could not make it anyway, physically. (The TV show.) Ruburt could make it physically—maybe not in the condition you would like, but he could appear on the show. Do you see the difference?
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(4:27. This proved to be the end of the session. I would like to add here that we did realize that it wasn’t utterly impossible, physically, for Jane to negotiate an appearance on the TV show. But the difficulties involved made it unlikely that we would bother to try this.)
