Word: bombasticus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Psychoanalyst's Nightmare is fun with Freud. Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, Antony and Romeo are psychoanalyzed by Dr. Bombasticus, end up as respectable Rotarians deeply ashamed of their "adolescent" behavior in Shakespeare's plays. "[The doctor] showed me," says Romeo, "that my real motivation was rebellion against the father . . . enabled me to become a staid and worthy upholder of the honor of the Montagues." Says Hamlet: "Dr. Bombasticus persuaded me that I was very young and had no understanding of statecraft. I apologized to my mother for any rude things I might have said." Moral: An ounce...
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