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Still, the most dubious part of this little minidrama is not really investors' herdlike advance and retreat as much as it is the governing principle behind that herdlike behavior.
As they did in 1997, the representatives are attending a retreat.
The fort never fired a shot in anger, but you can hear a few rifles and cannons blast off for the Ceremonial Retreat on Wednesday and Saturday evenings in July and August.
In Freudian terms, the Niceness Principle is often equivalent to the defense mechanism of reversal, in which the individual transforms the situation into its opposite, usually as a retreat from unpleasant emotions.
But Wolf's politics are roundly ridiculed, especially her idea that girls should retreat to the wilderness with older women to perform ceremonial sex rites.