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...DENNIS CORBETT--"Los Angeles will win in seven. Any team that can beat my Reds can beat the best the AL has to offer...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: By Jiminy | 10/11/1974 | See Source »

...people believe that "special interests" run the nation's political machinery. Similarly, George Mihaly, president of Gilbert Youth Research of New York City, recently found that only about 1% of students are thinking of politics as a career. "We know that people and movements are fallible," observes Margie Corbett, 21, a junior at American University in Washington. "We're afraid to believe too much in anything or anyone." Thus the overwhelming majority of students today are far more intent on using their college education as a means of entering the American system than as preparation for reforming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Now, the Self-Centered Generation | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

Married. Antoinette Sibley, 35, diminutive, radiant superstar of Britain's Royal Ballet; and Panton Corbett, 36, London banker; both for the second time; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 22, 1974 | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

...Corbett is billed on the dust jacket as "the well-known British psychic." His colleague Stearn Robinson is somewhat more ambiguously qualified as an interpreter of omens: she was a New York advertising woman and radio scriptwriter, listed on the book jacket as the inventor of the "integrated commercial." Their advice is to ignore dreams with a digestive origin and recurrent dreams too: these are certain to have a physiological or psychological basis and are thus without interest as portents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Signs and Portents | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

Students of the bizarre who have little confidence in Corbett and Robinson may be interested in the dream interpretations of another authority, who states that houses with smooth walls represent men; those with projections, women. "Zeppelin airships" represent the male sexual organ, as do hats, fish and overcoats. Snails, tables and churches are female symbols, and so are cities, fortresses and wood. A three-leaf clover is male. The interpretations in this paragraph were offered by Sigmund Freud in his Complete Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Signs and Portents | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

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