Yet if any single attitude prevails in Mr. Large's narrative, it is the city's sense throughout the past 130 years that it somehow fell short as a world city and that had to overcompensate for its failings and at the same time compensate for its overcompensation.
The Economist should encourage others to follow their example.Geoffrey Hosking LondonBeer...SIR – Brewing in America has certainly benefited from the craft-beer revolution, but I fear the tendency has been one of severe overcompensation ("Hops and dreams", April 12th).
These patterns are thought to be associated with a form of wave phenomenon and may be initiated by a single gravel patch in a channel; the first channel deviation requires an overcompensation of counter-deviation and sets off a chain reaction type of development.
The term has been used by some psychiatrists and psychologists, particularly the followers of the early psychoanalyst Alfred Adler, who held that many neurotic symptoms could be traced to overcompensation for this feeling.
"It's the overcompensation to where our generation goes, 'Relax,' because it's been easier for us, and because we don't have as much of the anger, so it's like we can't get behind it and it's a bit embarrassing.
When he did his trademark knife-juggling number in "Asparagus Valley," he used to say, "What I think about when I'm watching a routine like this is what kind of mental or physical inadequacies would force a person to take up such a self-destructive, exhibitionist form of overcompensation".
In yet more overcompensation, Calderón has seemed to be pounding extra hard on Sinaloa in recent times.
Ironically, in response to perceived insults like this one, the victims' -rights movement seems bent on an overcompensation of its own--in the form of an amendment to the Constitution.
Mackey, an outspoken critic of executive overcompensation, pays himself a dollar a year.
A career PAN functionary (his father co-founded the Party), Calderón is not a particularly colorful or forceful character, and his sudden assumption of the role of wartime leader was also seen by critics as overcompensation.
