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Владимир Дмитриевич Аракин
problems myself...
11. Answer the following questions:
1. Does the self-criticism of each of the participants of the interview reveal anything about personality and attitudes? 2. Would
these people be different when described by their relations or friends? 3. What differences do you notice between the people
answering the questions of the interviewer?
12. When you describe people you either criticize or praise them. When you criticize you normally try to find faults rather than positive traits
of character but it certainly does not exclude the expression of praise. Here are some comments that people make when they are invited to analyse
and judge:
I think I'd much prefer to ... ; nothing like as good (bad) as ... ; that's what I thought... ; and that's another thing; there's much va-
riety in ... ; to be similar in ... ; there's a tremendous number of differences in ... : to have little (much) in common.
Use the cliches in the conversations of your own when you are welcome with your criticism of people.
13. Work in pairs. Read the extracts and expand on the idea that: "Every man is a bundle of possibilities." You are to sum up the characters
described. You may be of a similar or a different opinion of the human types presented below. Consider the strong and the weak traits of
characters. Your judgement should be followed by some appropriate comment:
1. Where she found the time, and still managed to "practically run that big house" and be the president of her class ... , a skilled
rider, an excellent musician (piano, clarinet), an annual winner at the country fair (pastry, preserves, needlework, flower arrangement)
— how a girl not yet seventeen could have such a wagon- load, and do so without "brag", with, rather, merely a radiant jaun- tiness,
was an enigma the community pondered, and solved by saying, "She's got character. Gets it from her old man." Certainly her
strongest trait, the talent that gave support to all the others, was derived from her father: a fine-boned sense of organization. Each
moment was assigned; she knew precisely at any hour, what she would be doing, how long it would require.
2. You are a man of extreme passion, a hungry man not quite sure where his appetite lies, a deeply frustrated man striving to
project his individuality against a backdrop of rigid conformity. You exist in a half-world suspended between two superstructures, one
self-expression and the other self-destruction. You are strong, but there is a flaw in your strength, and unless you learn to control it the
flaw will prove stronger than your strength and defeat you. The flaw? Explosive emotional reaction out of all proportion to the
occasion. Why? Why this unreasonable anger at the sight of others who are happy or content, this growing contempt for people and
the desire to hurt them? All right, you think they're fools, you despise them because their morals, their happiness is the source of your