Word: couching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goldwater himself, he let it be known that he was changing his strategy, would no longer discuss "nitpicking issues," from now on would couch his campaign in broad terms of the virtues of conservatism as opposed to liberalism-which in his lexicon comes out as "Socialism...
...hour of his ultimate estrangement. His clients shrug him off. His mistress, wearying of him, cancels plans for the weekend with him. His clerk, who has really been running the law practice, gives notice. His secretary, with whom he used to catch a few winks on the office couch, tells him she is pregnant and leaving to marry her new lover. His daughter listens passively to his wandering verbiage, then walks wordlessly away from him. His wife attacks him savagely on the phone, and he opts not to go home again. He learns that the bar association has initiated measures...
...American Medical Association as a vicious example of "yellow journalism." But the A.P.A. did not totally absolve its members either. Those who responded, said the A.P.A. in effect, were practicing personal politics and not medicine. Which scarcely explained how and why so many psychiatrists confused the analytical couch with the political stump...
...What a nice cabin," Andy murmurs to Sandra as they arrive for an assignation. But wait. The place has been booby-trapped by a buddy of Goulet's. When Andy opens the front door, a full-grown black bear strolls out. When the lovers sit on the couch, springs boing in all directions. When they start upstairs, the stairs collapse. When Andy lights a fire, the house fills up with smoke. When he runs to the well for water, the cap collapses, and he lands in the drink. When he tries to barbecue a chicken, flame shoots...
...cannot get our Luthers, Wagners and Napoleons on the couch," writes Psychologist Kiell, "but we know some of what they could have revealed there." In fact, thanks to sophisticated new techniques in "psychobiography" (analysis of handwriting, paintings, drawings, dreams), "psychology and biography have become almost inseparable." To demonstrate what a psycho-biographer can do when he sets his intuitions to work, Psychologist Kiell presents a series of post-mortem analyses of famous Americans as seen by an array of psychologists and psychiatrists. Most of them read like psychiatric small talk overheard at a literary cocktail party...