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...Omnipotent. Sometimes, says Psychiatrist Ebaugh, a doctor has so much self-love that he must "preserve the illusion of omnipotence . . . the doctor who plays God." His patients, if they do not get better or do exactly what he says, "must bear the brunt of a revengeful Jehovah and assume full guilt for their failure to recover...
...Time to Talk. Evening Moscow's "brigade" of reporters singled out the Express, on Flower Boulevard, for the brunt of their criticism. "The projection hall is in a very pitiful state," they wrote. "The walls are peeling and dirty, the chairs are broken. The customers have to sit in the dark before the show starts. Those who sit in the last rows get frozen, because the exit into the street is just behind them. The screen cannot be seen well from the last rows. When the customers complain, the manager explains: 'You cannot see if you are small...
...show a 7.8 percent decline from last year in the national scene as well as 16.7 percent decrease at Harvard. Because of the large number of college graduates during the recent years, when a great number of veterans returned to school, the graduate schools have had to bear the brunt of the increase...
...regrettable that Father Murray refuses to answer in a serious manner the expressed dangers to traditional American ideals posed by the Roman Catholic Church . . . Romanism at present is bearing the brunt of Communistic attacks against religion, and is needing the aid and sympathy of all Christian people...
...Luxembourg were a source of considerable satisfaction to France's General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, commander in chief of Western Union's land forces. General de Lattre has long believed and argued that Western Union's land forces would have to bear the first brunt of any attack from the East, must have the appropriate priorities. He also believes that Western Union's land-defense program must eventually be fitted into a larger plan for all the Atlantic pact signatories. Not much can be done with this larger plan until the U.S. Congress decides...