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...central question posed by The Good Apprentice is whether Edward can be saved from his paralyzing depression. Harry gives him a pep talk: "You are having a nervous breakdown, you are ill, it is an illness, like pneumonia or scarlet fever, you will receive help, you will be given treatment . . . you will recover." McCaskerville has reservations about his profession, calling psychoanalysis a "mishmash of scientific ideas and mythology and literature and isolated facts and sympathy and intuition and love and appetite for power." Nevertheless, he tries to help Edward: "I'm not telling you not to feel remorse and guilt...
...Midge stumble into Seegard by mistake, which results in the exposure of their illicit affair. When he returns to the comparative serenity of London, Edward casts a baffled look backward at all he has experienced: "In a way it's all a muddle starting off with an accident: my breakdown, drugs, telepathy, my father's illness, cloistered neurotic women, people arriving unexpectedly, all sorts of things which happened by pure chance. At so many points anything being otherwise could have made everything be otherwise...
Insurgent leaders say that with the breakdown of peace talks a year ago, they are even more intent on waging a prolonged conflict designed to destabilize the Duarte government and sap military morale. Their tactics, as detailed by a top E.R.P. official in Morazán, will be as blunt and brutal as ever: urban warfare, including kidnapings like that last fall of Duarte's daughter Inés; economic sabotage, like blowing up power stations; and the outright murder of U.S. advisers and officials. "In the long run, killing Yanquis is a form of undermining Reagan's policies," declared the rebel...
...Artists, while U.S. traders can look up current quotes on 288 London issues. The new service, said N.A.S.D. Chairman David Hunter, "is the beginning of the global network for 24-hour equity trading." Next stop for London's traders: the New York Stock Exchange. AUTOS How to Survive A Breakdown...
...cancel lessons without warning if he was not in the mood. "It had its negative aspects," says Alexander Fiorillo, a professor of piano at Temple University who studied with Horowitz between 1960 and 1962. "He is callous to people's emotions and their feelings. I almost had a nervous breakdown." Yet Coleman Blumfield, whose lessons came to a summary end in 1958 for reasons he never completely understood, declares, "It was a privilege and an honor to study under Horowitz. From him I learned the extreme range of tonal coloring possible with the piano...