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African savages do not lynch people. Southern white "crackers" do. Psychiatrist A. A. Brill has said: "Anyone taking part in or witnessing a lynching cannot remain a civilized person." Lynching is a handy substitute for the merry-go-round, the theatre, the symphony orchestra and other diversions which "crackers" lack. Author White has enough sense not to present lynch-law as an indictment of civilization below the Mason-Dixon line. Instead he conducts an inquiry which blames, not the whole white Southern civilization itself, but elements thereof...
...social activities. He was indifferent even to dress, favored $2.50 hats, and ready-made suits. When the Perroquet de Paris was opened to the elite of Manhattan's night life, Roger Kahn left his expensive tuxedos hanging in the closet, wore a $40 suit bought the day before from Brill Bros. Of course, he was only a boy then?19. Now, almost 20, he is growing more debonair. He brought back to the U. S. this summer 50 tailored suits, untold neckties, shoes, hats, from London. He has even been reported engaged to marry Miss Virginia Franck...
...figures sure to figure in the Foundation's foundation and upon its governing committee: Dr. Clarence P. Oberndorf of Manhattan, onetime (1923) President of the American Psychoanalytical Society and Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis; Dr. Abraham Arden Brill* of New York University, "first U. S. practitioner of Freud's doctrine" and a U. S. translator of his works; Dr. Edward L. Bernays, Manhattan, "counsel on public relations" and nephew to Dr. Freud...
...time of the trial of Murderers Leopold and Loeb in Chicago a year ago, Dr. Brill attracted attention by declaring that George Washington and Woodrow Wilson as well as the murderers were "schizoids," i. e., independent persons, progressing on aims tangential to the tendencies of the day. Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt he classed as "syntonics," i. e., persons following a line which, however set, synchronizes with their surroundings...
...greatest work). It distinguished him in the comparative psychology of animals. He was the first American psychologist to give any credit to psychoanalysis, and though always critical of its pretensions, he brought it sharply to the attention of the scientific world by inviting Freud, Jung, Jones, Ferenczi, Brill and other leading psychologists of Europe and America to a conference at Worcester in 1907, at which they fraternized with James and other leading academic psychologists. Hall wasted no time striving for perfect psychological orthodoxy, and was sometimes a bit under suspicion with his colleagues. But his mind was always open...