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...must have been in its turn a reaction to some infantile greed." Poor Freud! What would he have done if he had had to while away his anxieties in an airline terminal, listening to tinned music and scratchy announcements of flight cancellations? Analysis might never have progressed past the anal stage...
...main mistake is non-selectivity. He spent five years in research, and seems more interested in the facts than he is in Freud. Even menus are printed in full, and at one point the story stands still while the author describes 37 of Freud's colleagues. Anal is the Freudian word for this sort of heap making, but Stone is unembarrassed and apparently unaware that the details have effaced the drama of Freud's life...
Good Send-Offs. Schuyler denizens are regarded with bemused contempt by more swinging Columbia students. "It's a place for anal Catholics. They want to preserve you from sin," scoffs one junior, a Catholic himself. As a group, the students are well above average in ability and politically quite conservative; they tend to shun radical activism. But each weekend some 20 residents take turns doing volunteer tutoring at an Opus Dei study center for younger students. Mostly, the residents' zest for service is inner-directed, toward caring for sick Schuylerites or helping dorm mates who have dropped behind...
...course, making lists is an exercise that has little to do with reality and a lot to do with the more anal compulsions of the list-maker. If you think I have my head up my ass, by all means let me know...
...Succeed-At-Harvard" satire is tired; the Ibis piece is pointless as usual (I just hope it's some sort of in-joke). I'd be convinced this later genre is innately sterile except for a truly charming example Kaplan produced last Spring. At the risk of seeming anal, let me point out that a feature composed of fake postcards ostensibly meant to trick freshmen into sending their radical intentions to various bad guys of the right has the addresses on the wrong side when you flip the page...