Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Included in the cast are the owners of the hotel, nine adolescents and children, a clergyman, four lovers and a clutch of frustrated husbands & wives. Culture enters the lobby mainly in the form of such lines as "The strains of Stravinsky ceased ..." and "He looked up from the Times Literary Supplement . . ." Comedy creeps in (looking for its shoes) when, for instance, a doctor mentions "metatarsals" and a sweet young thing asks, "Who did you say met a tarsal?" In a line here & there appear half-suffocated indications that Margaret Kennedy could still, if she wished, write another bestseller as good...
When a Christian does battle with Freud, it is no news. But a foray against Freud just published in the U.S. by British Clergyman Benjamin Gilbert Sanders, Christianity After Freud (Macmillan; $1.75), may raise some startled eyebrows among both psychoanalysts and Christians. For Author Sanders picks Freud's own weapons to defend Christianity...