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Work of Mourning. Lifton recalls that he once gave a lecture on Hiroshima to a group of psychiatrists; some of them later told him that they resented subsequent speakers who dealt with ordinary concerns. He notes that a similar reaction occurred after President Kennedy's assassination. To accomplish what Freud called "the work of mourning"-the process of coming to terms with loss-Americans remained glued to their TV sets, absorbing every detail of the killing and the funeral. When the stations returned to routine programming, many viewers felt annoyed and let down. The work of mourning had "opened...
...toward since the season began, and before that since B.U. humiliated Harvard in the same situation two years ago. But the Terriers, who had wormed into the underdog role by virtue of several terribly off nights in recent weeks, played up to potential and reversed the upset they were dealt by Harvard in December...
...Americanism." Given this background, it is difficult to see how his presence in the U.S. as a visiting professor of humanities could be contrary to the national interest. If the State Department kept out every alien opposed to the war in Vietnam, the U.S. balance of payments would be dealt a staggering blow...
...Pieces. In this attempt Wolfe never got beyond his barbaric yawp of an overture. He left only four novels, two of them posthumous, all of them painfully hacked out of his vast scrawlings by his editors. Since he had no ideas, he dealt with none. Politics interested him not at all, and economics could be summed up by comparing cash in hand with what he owed his landlord. He was an undisciplined poet of feelings, of emotions, usually his own and always tortured. Wolfe did leave memorable set pieces (in Look Homeward, Angel the death of his brother, the portrait...
...contrast to the humor, the lower depths elicited the most common failings of undergraduate art. Most of the dances which dealt with the anguish of love, or depression, loneliness, and death produced big empty cliches of movement: contractions in the solar plexus, rolls to the floor, and tortured embracing of empty space (including the dancers' own heads). Using quivering feet and fingers spread in agony to express their morbid profundities the choreographers seldom planned expression for the whole body. Still preverbal, they were seldom able to express themselves in the real morphemes of the dance--movement and energy involving...