Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table) wrote three novels which have been widely unread. They reflected the scientific interests of their author, a physician, teacher of anatomy at Harvard, dean of its Medical School. Recently a psychoanalyst made the suggestion that Holmes's novels were perhaps the most original and significant of all his works, establishing the wiry little Bostonian as the godfather of modern psychoanalysis. Holmes, he found, discovered the "unconscious" (sometimes called "subconscious") 25 years before Sigmund Freud...
Oberndorf's interpretations of Holmes's words sometimes seem farfetched. But in the light of Freudian psychiatry many of Holmes's aphorisms assume striking new meanings: e.g., "The woman a man loves is always his own daughter." The autocrat of the breakfast table, says Oberndorf, well understood the Oedipus and other complexes...
Farmer François Theron hates baboons. Some 1 ,000 of the big monkeys live on his sheep farm in South Africa's Cape province. Says he: "They'll rip off a sheep's leg for breakfast and leave the animal...
...colored eyes warmed at the sight of her silvery beauty. When he saw her amazement at the museumlike rooms, where the antique chairs were like small islands on the ocean of faded carpet, his eyes danced with amusement. When he heard her give her first order to the maids-breakfast for him-he could not conceal his satisfaction with her progress. When, without knowing that she was doing it, she made simple, practical, New England suggestions for improving the plantation, he acted on her advice, and prospered...
...interest in their manufacture to his brother, famed Will Keith ("Corn Flakes") Kellogg. John Harvey Kellogg and his childless wife brought up 40-odd foster children, inspired his onetime patient W. C. Post to the discovery of Postum and Post Toasties. Recent Kellogg health rule: ". . . eat less breakfast foods . . . and more potatoes...