Word: couched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sohn, the Lord's day was being kept. In a sparsely furnished living room at Mikve Israel (an agricultural school near Tel Aviv), Zvi's son Solomon was reading aloud from the Bible; Zvi himself, a fragile old man with a flowing white beard, lay on a couch listening. Just then, a U.S. newsman came in to ask some questions about another member of the family...
...N.E.A. syndicate will offer to some 600 newspapers; Pocket Books, Inc. has issued a 25? edition of the Mérimée novel, plugging the movie on the cover; John Powers has selected a Carmen-type model; Manhattan Psychiatrist Dr. Frederic Wertham has put Carmen on the couch for a psychoanalytical study and has concluded: "The world is full of Carmens...
...world last week was out flat on the analyst's couch. What started wars, it appeared, was that everybody felt as guilty as Cain. To get rid of the guilt feelings, you had to do something violent. After having done something violent, you of course felt guilty again. After that-and so on, until the decline and fall of Western civilization...
...Psychoanalysis is old stuff to the Catholics, of course. Only they do it on their knees for free, instead of on a couch at $10 an hour...
...Father White wonders whether God may not sometimes use the couch as well as the confessional to save a soul: "While man is limited to the appointed channels of grace and forgiveness, God is not so limited; and there seems to be no foregone reason why the theologian can deny to dream-symbolism the . . . efficacy he must allow to the sacraments . . . or - it may be added - the dream symbols of the Scriptures. Though little can be affirmed or denied with certainty, the resemblances are sometimes too impressive to be totally ignored...