World Socionics

Josep “Pep” Guardiola (b. 18 January 1971), the Catalan football manager and former player, is one of the most consequential coaches of modern football. His career, stretching from his formative years under Johan Cruyff at FC Barcelona to his managerial dominance at Barcelona, Bayern Munich, and Manchester City, has produced a body of work of such aesthetic coherence and tactical sophistication that it is often described in near-religious terms by admirers. Widely regarded as one of the greatest football managers of all time, he holds the record for the highest number of consecutive victories in three different top European leagues. From his earliest days as a player, Guardiola was marked not by innate genius of touch but by a burning intensity of will and control. Cruyff, who made him the pivot of Barcelona’s “Dream Team,” saw in him a player of rare intelligence and command rather than flair: “He reads the game better than anyone else on the pitch” (Cruyff 1999, p. 84). Guardiola’...

  The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 political thriller film based on the novel by Frederick Forsyth of the same name, published just a couple of years earlier. It was directed by Fred Zinnemann, who already had prestigious films such as  High Noon and From Here To Eternity among his credits. The book's plot follows a professional assassin - known simply as "the Jackal" - as he prepares to carry out a contract for killing French President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. The screenplay follows the book pretty closely: it simplified rather than modified the book; it cut some pieces of dialogue; it moved the city where the Jackal's forger and gunsmith are based, from Brussels to Genova; and it eliminated one of the Jackal's fake identities. Other changes are minor.  This film is unique and worthy of analysis, in my opinion, for using mainly P on the audience, with a little bit of  R , and I  as to the structure of the narrative, and very few concessions to other element...

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African lawyer, political activist and Thembu hereditary nobleman who was the most prominent leader of the movement against that country's system of institutionalised racial segregation known as apartheid . He served as South Africa's first president of the post- apartheid period from 1994 to 1999 after having been a political prisoner in 1964-1990. Backround :  Mandela was born in 1918 in what is today the Eastern Cape province, in the core territory of the Xhosa ethnic group; more precisely he belonged to the royal family of the Thembu, a smaller group within the Xhosa. He studied law at Fort Hare, not far from his home town of Qunu, and in 1943 he continued his studies at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Up to this time, as per his own account, Mandela's life experiences had been mostly limited to rural areas where his daily exposure to the social realities of being a black South African were minimal, and his p...

  Gore Vidal (Eugene Luther Gore Vidal) was an American writer of novels, essays, stage plays and scripts for television and cinema, active from the 1940s to the 2000s. Towards the end of his life he became better known as a political polemicist in essays, interviews and speeches, mostly denouncing what he called "the national security state" in the US.  He was on occasion a political candidate, running unsuccessfully as a Democrat in 1960 for Congress in what was then New York's 29th District, and in 1982 in the California primaries for the US Senate. During his 1960 campaign, he actually came up with the concept of what would later become the Peace Corps, introduced by President Kennedy. As a writer, Vidal was best known for such bestselling novels as The City and the Pillar (1948), Julian (1964), Myra Breckingridge  (1968), Burr (1973), Creation (1981) and  Lincoln (1984). His last novel was The Golden Age (2000). In his later years he focused increasingly...