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...well they should. For if you were to take the pulse of American amateur hockey, you'd have to reach out to the state of Minnesota--and as guys like Tomassoni, Swenson, and Nielsen know, it's something the Crimson will have to experience to understand...
...This amateur connoisseur's attitude extended beyond the lyrics to Kirk's guitar lines and David McClymont's bass playing, which draw attention to the start of each melody, then deliberately hide it amid equally alluring countermelodies. (I always remember how each early Orange Juice song begins, and almost never how any of them end.) The amateur connoisseurs in their Postcard days also knew how to handle production: nothing is muddy or inarticulate, but nothing is overbright or "too produced" or metallic or synth-damaged either. Nor is there a horn section. When Orange Juice signed to a major label...
...this sounds damning, more of the same and then some can be found in Allen Esterson's Seductive Mirage: An Exploration of the Work of Sigmund Freud (Open Court; $52.95). As a mathematician, Esterson is vulnerable to charges from Freud loyalists that he is an amateur, unqualified to discuss the mysteries of psychoanalysis. Maybe so, but his relentless examinations of discrepancies, doctored evidence and apparent lies within Freud's own accounts of individual cases make for disturbing reading. Esterson's argument is often most effective ! when it quotes the analyst directly on his therapeutic techniques. Freud regularly sounds like...
...Imperial Navy Lieut. Kiyoshi Serikawa; and his longtime buddy Cotton Drake, an Episcopal missionary raised in Japan. Kiyoshi is ordered to Honolulu to gather intelligence, and back in Japan his wife and best friend fall chastely in love. Cotton also catches wind of Tokyo's plans and becomes an amateur...
Please, everyone, strive to help each other! Not to play amateur therapist, but to learn when and how to try to steer someone toward help. Everyone encounters people daily who are silently suffering in ways we may not imagine. We can all be much more alert for warning signs: often changes in sleep patterns, diet and weight, energy levels, and/or mood (`affect'), or perhaps simply the arrival of midterms can indicate some underlying condition which should be addressed...