Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Southern oratory is not very impressive to David L. Cohn. Born in Mississippi, an alumnus of the Universities of Virginia and Yale, Cohn has explored the purlieus of American love "from living room, bedroom, and bathroom" to lovelorn columns and women's magazines. And he has reached the most jaundiced conclusions...
...American male, says Cohn, really dislikes women because 1) he was dominated by them in childhood and early youth, 2) "he vaguely suspects that they regard men as suckers," 3 ) he resents their stepping off their pedestals and competing with him in the vulgar world of offices and cocktail bars. Emotionally adolescent, eager to be mothered by his wife, the husband's place in the family is often that of an elder son. This status is encouraged by the women's press. "When a man weeps at the movies," drools the Ladies' Home Journal, "it means...
Unlike Europeans, says Cohn, only four alternatives present themselves to an American couple whose marriage has run into obstacles: 1) "going home to Mamma," 2) "getting a divorce," 3) "getting tight," 4) "draping oneself on a psychoanalytical couch." Shocked by the trials of marriage, men &. women have turned for help to scientists and doctors. Sample findings...
...Bird Dogs. Cohn suggests that such findings are inadequate. American women, he believes, are hunting will-o'-the-wisps "with an energy, a resolve and a blatancy" that soon drives a predisposed, infantile husband to lose all interest in his home and accept his wife as he would "an old bird dog." To become adult in marital relations is not enough, says Cohn. Women must turn over a new public leaf. Instead of enthusing "for the missions of Namaqualand," they might pay some attention to "the essentials of local government." Instead of talking complacently about the glories...
...Author. David L. Cohn, 46, one-time national advertising manager of Sears, Roebuck, good friend of Sculptor Jacob Epstein, Dorothy Thompson, Sinclair Lewis and Rebecca West, is now a policy adviser with the British Information Service in Washington. He is a bachelor...