Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Polish coup d'etat in evening dress, with the help of $500 lent her by Sigmund Freud. With verve and clarity, she analyzed the mood of Depression-hit Germany. But her best-known bit of punditry was also her worst: in 1932 she produced a book on Adolf Hitler, decided he would never reach power. "Oh, Adolf! Adolf!" she wrote. "You will be out of luck...
...year has never ended. In 1921-25 he was in Munich, where he made the sort of mistake that is part of the training of a professional. The U.S. was interested in the doings of rising young Rabble Rouser Adolf Hitler. Murphy reported that Hitler was simply too loony to be dangerous. Among the diplomatic observers in Munich who agreed with Murphy was Apostolic Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli. Years later, after the liberation of Rome. Diplomat Robert Murphy saw Pacelli again, grinned: "Do you remember the reports which we agreed to send about Hitler?" Replied Eugenio Pacelli. by this time Pope...
...Freudians, they contended, the goal of analytical psychiatry is complete rationality for the patient, so that if fully cured, he will understand all his drives and have no repressions. To Jungians this is a false goal, and as bad as'a false god. Said Zurich's Dr. Adolf Guggen-biihl: "Man is basically nonrational; he has too many basic, instinctual drives ever to become wholly rational or logical, and medicine must help him to accept this fact." To Jung & Co., the latter-day worship of rationality has its roots in the scientism that gave birth to both...
...Adolf Hitler's brutal deputy, Martin Bormann, was notorious for his hatred of religion, took particular care that "none of my children gets depraved and diseased by the poison of Christianity." In 1945 Deputy Führer Bormann's son Martin, 15, was sent off to war in the Brenner Pass area as a member of the Hitler Youth "Werewolf" volunteers. In the Nazi holocaust, Party Leader Bormann vanished. Last week it became plain how completely Bormann had failed to guide his son along his own paths. After studying for nine years, Martin Bormann, 28, was consecrated...
Died. Eyvind Laholm (real name: Edwin Johnson), 64, Wisconsin-born operatic tenor who sang in Europe for 14 years before making his debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in 1939, was once Adolf Hitler's favorite singer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...