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Orthodox Freudians take issue with Lindner's basic method. Famed Dr. Franz Alexander, director of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, states that while he has no specific knowledge of Lindner's work, he does not think that "in chronic cases . . . the revival of hypnosis has great advantages over the modern handling of psychotherapy." Says Manhattan's Dr. A. A. Brill: "People can become addicts of hypnosis, as of drugs...
...Those apples aren't ripe. A lot of my men have chronic stomachaches. I wish their mothers had taught them better...
...Like Son." Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken), an awkward, befuddled but eager son of suburbia, is the "hero." Given a rousing send-off by fellow citizens of Oakridge, Calif., he marches confidently off to war, only to be ignominiously bounced out of Marine boot camp because of his chronic hay fever. Burning with shame, he thinks of his father, Hinky Dink Truesmith, a hero who died gloriously at Belleau Wood on the day his son was born; of his mother, so proud and radiant, weeping on the station platform; of the brass bands tootling and banners proudly declaiming: "Like...
Member after member rose in Canada's House of Commons to air a chronic complaint: Parliament is underpaid...
Some Live on Nettles. The staple food in most districts is dried corn served as a gruel (skrob), with sour milk and potatoes on the side. In part of Montenegro and Bosnia famine is chronic; thousands of people live on nettles. But they live, and they fight. Men and beasts alike are always hungry for salt. A peasant will offer 9 lb. of corn for 2 lb. of salt, or a goat and kid for 11 lb. of salt. This spring, as every spring, wheat and vegetables have been sowed, but the peasants remember the German way of marching...