Word: anality
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...swaddling clothes. Charles Whitman's shooting people from the clock tower of the Texas campus is diagnosed as a case of sexual overcompensation (on a phallic tower with a phallic rifle). Stanford Associate English Professor Bruce Franklin notes that "our basic method of fighting in Viet Nam is anal-sadistic. A man in an airplane is in a nonorganic environment, symbolically defecating on the organic world below...
...ludicrous. Even as interpreted by the expert, Freud's vision was never one of scientific "fact," but a fascinating mythology. The mythology can work successfully as part of treatment. But in the hands of amateurs, only a grotesquely distorted version remains, with its talk about stamp collecting as anal and piano playing as masturbatory. "That belongs to an earlier period," says Critic Alfred Kazin. "By now, people know that the passions are real but not that readily symbolized. There is very little philosophy per se in this country, and Americans have been left high and dry by the evaporation...
...play is a surrealistic farce about Pere Ubu, who is "ugly, pearshaped, greedy, stupid, anal." Zimmet maintains that the only thing unusual about him is that he becomes King of Poland. The play makes liberal use of four-letter words...
...somewhat noble women. Just as the audience begins to understand their funny view of the world, their hopeless ineptitude, and their dreams of beauty and happiness, a new element enters the story. Although not exactly a personification of evil, Mr. Perkins is the symbol of business, advertising, wealth and anal compulsiveness; through his intervention the restaurant stages a glowing comeback and the women's dreams are quite thoroughly extinguished...
...article - in personal letters to Professor Frankel. Most of the letters were attacks on Northern prejudice. But along with the poison-pen mail came letters from five Alabama lawyers who had been provoked into re-examining their own obligations as members of the bar. "Hooray for your excellent anal ysis," said an attorney in Montgomery...