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Normal mice grasped the wire with forepaws and when allowed to hang free, placed at least one hind foot on the wire within 5 seconds.
I don't want to psychologize, but clearly he simply found himself unable to manage this large and difficult subject, floundered, and grasped onto a series of unwise devices that derailed the project--of which the fictional narrators are only one, and not the most disastrous.
(I hadn't grasped how square and stolid the framing was until last night, when, while filming a concert by the pathetic dregs of a real '70s band, the camera tilted sardonically, just for an instant.)
As you can see, the statement is Franks' own, based on what the president's friends "told me," a point that seemed to be fully grasped by a reporter who asked about it at the Aug. 2. White House briefing.
Only when we have grasped the full extent of the Freudian intellectual fiasco--it is adumbrated in my book but exhaustively explored in Malcolm Macmillan's Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc (1997)--will we be able to talk about motives with an adequate respect for their actual variety and volatility.