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...minor complaint-your failure to point out that the mystic-sounding terms Id, Ego and Superego are just so much Anglo-American psychiatric jabberwocky for simple concepts. In his native German, Freud used understandable terms: es, ich and überich-literally translatable as the it, the I and the beyond-I. This kind of linguistic lily-gilding by Freudian exponents is the stuff that cultism is made...
...hours after the French government announced that Premier Guy Mollet had accepted an invitation to visit Moscow in May, his fellow Socialist, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, unburdened himself of the sharpest talk any French foreign minister had directed at France's allies in years. Addressing the Anglo-American press club, Pineau declared bluntly: "I am in deep disagreement with the policy followed by the Western nations during recent years." His thesis: "We have made an enormous mistake in deciding that security problems were the only international problems we had to worry about. Of course we need security. Of course...
NUCLEAR POWER for the British Commonwealth will get a boost from U.S. industry. In the first commercial Anglo-American atomic project, American Machine & Foundry Co. and Britain's Mitchell Engineering, Ltd. have agreed to build a series of nuclear power plants in underdeveloped Commonwealth areas...
Apparently Khrushchev & Co. hoped to get some windfall out of parading Burgess and Maclean at this moment, hoping either to smooth the way for Khrushchev's forthcoming trip to London, or to muddy up the recent Anglo-American accord. Foreign Office officials have suspected Maclean's hand in the skillful phrasing of Bulganin's two recent "peace" notes to President Eisenhower. But the circumstances of the hotel interview indicated that, though they might be useful in phrasing messages, the Russians regard the two ex-diplomats as no more than propaganda puppets...
...whip of the "Bloods," an athletic elite corps. At Chartres, as he calls his school, Lewis, a lifelong bachelor, lost his virginity to a dancing mistress, and the remnants of his Christianity to his house mother. The house mother was running "the mazes of Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, Spiritualism; the whole Anglo-American Occultist tradition . . . From the tyrannous noon of revelation I passed into the cool evening of Higher Thought, where there was nothing to be obeyed, and nothing to be believed except what was either comforting or exciting...