Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory." Psychoanalysis holds, roughly, that morbid fear is the result of a distressing experience in early life, later repressed into the Unconscious (i. e. forgotten). Relief is obtained when the sufferer, by recalling that experience, brings his 'ailment out of the shadows into the light of consciousness. A classic case is that described by the late Dr. W. H. H. Rivers, who succeeded in curing a young man stricken with claustrophobia in World War trenches by getting him to recall a childhood terror connected with a long passageway and a dog. Psychiatrists (including psychoanalysts) commonly supplement- recall with their...
...London three statesmen have been wrestling with dollars, pounds and francs as the mythical Trojan priest Laocoon and his two sons once wrestled with snakes which crushed them for the crime of defying Apollo. Recently the London News Chronicle, which favors cartoons of classic inspiration, printed a Laocoon group (see cut) in which the currency serpents coil around British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, James M. Cox, U. S. Delegate and Chairman of the World Conference Monetary Committee, and French Finance Minister Georges Bonnet. Last week, a few hours after the Conference adjourned (see p. 16), Chancellor Chamberlain...
...bluff in it all, of course. The classic example is Attorney-General Cummings' campaign against gold hoarding. It was never intended to be anything but bluff--God willing. How far can the New Deal go? It does not know. Over at agriculture they are threatening about unreasonable bread prices. It is an advanture, this threat. Bread has been picked because it affords a popular ground for such a campaign. But if it comes to excessive prices for automobiles or ships? No one knews. How far dare the threat be carried? The popular frame of mind and the courts must...
...London last week Sweden's pert, petite Princess Ingrid thought she would have a look at the World Monetary & Economic Conference. She went to the brand new white stone edifice with imposing classic columns which was built as London's Geological Museum but converted just before completion to house the Conference (TIME, June 19). Entering incognito, Her Royal Highness poked about. She found most of the committee rooms empty, a few bored statesmen arguing in others. Taken in tow by a Conference doorman she was led to what is eventually to be the Museum's Great Hall...
...team meets the U. S. team in the interzone finals. ¶Ben Jeby: a 15-round fight with Young Terry of Trenton, N. J., in which Jeby was defending his world's middleweight championship; in Newark. ¶Inlander, owned by socialite Mrs. Dodge Sloane of Manhattan: the Arlington Classic, in which he muddily spattered up from fourth place in the stretch, to finish first and pay $21.52, in Chicago. ¶Ralph Flannagan, 15, of Miami: the National A. A. U. outdoor mile swimming race held in the north lagoon of the Century of Progress, Chicago...