Word: breuer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rockies, done in Colorado last summer, was a majestic landscape in greens and purples, given an effect of great distance by the sharp, tiny black shadows of cabins in a valley foreground. The Golden Tree, one of the largest, best-designed canvases, showed Mrs. Poor (Novelist Bessie Breuer) in a brown dress and bright green bandanna, engrossed in typescript at an open window ablaze with yellow autumn foliage...
MEMORY OF LOVE-Bessie Breuer-Simon & Schuster...
...Author Breuer compares modern love to a nickel-in-the-slot piano: "Sad and twanging and uneven and the old sacred chords breaking through." This should be fair warning to readers who like a more classical-romantic tune. Memory of Love is an ambitious attempt to transpose the old sweet song into what traditional troubadours will call a purely imaginary key. Author Breuer is a woman but she writes her story in the masculine first person. Her feminine peers may see in her novel the projection of a feminine daydream : how it would feel to be a lady-killer...
...makes a practice of going to bed with a bottle, his father steps in, cuts off his allowance. Faced with a thoroughly frightening economic reality he comes to heel like the well-brought-up son of his mother that he is, drops Julie like an old bone. Author Breuer's intention was not tendentious, but Memory of Love does better as a tract on snobbery than as a tragedy of souls...
...award is especially appropriate for Dr. Freud. Some 50 years ago, Goethe's essay Die Natur first decided him to abandon the writing of poetry which had been his occupation, and study natural processes. After a course in general medicine, he specialized in neurology. One day, Dr. Josef Breuer, Viennese physician, told him about a girl cured of hysteria by recollecting under hypnosis certain forgotten experiences. From that time, Freud persisted in his neurological studies, built up a psychological treatment for hysteria which led to the system of psychoanalysis...