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Weil and his colleagues are to be congratulated for a sophisticated and balanced treatment of a subject which to their knowledge and mine has never before been recognized as a discreet "field." There is indeed a New Psychology in the offing--a psychology which can only glorify rather than diminish the stature of man's mind. Those who are concerned to preserve the sentiment of Wonder have no cause for concern, for there is as much to wonder at in the marvelous mental mechanisms that are only now becoming clear as in all the works of art and literature that...
...spans the history of modern Russia from Czardom through Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution, Stalin's years of terror, and the gentler years of the old killer's successors. Ehrenburg managed to survive it all by saying just enough of the right things and keeping a discreet tongue about the wrongs around him. Last week, in the final chapters of his rambling memoirs, People, Years, Life, Ehrenburg reminisced on the darker side of the Stalin...
...clubs now resemble the men's clubs of London, Boston and New York more than they do typical college fraternity. The emphasis is on Wild Turkey and "quiet fun," not beer and girls. Instead of wearing loud sweatshirts covered with the fraternity letters, final club members wear ties with discreet identifying symbols--the Porcellian's tiny pig, the Spee's bear...
Constant Crisis. The steel companies and the Steelworkers Union agreed to a four-month extension of contracts only after Federal Mediator William E. Simkin threatened that he might specify the terms himself-and a few discreet calls were made from the White House. The cost to the companies, which will build an escrow fund to be used as part of the final settlement: 11½? per hour effective this week, or a 2.6% raise, considerably lower than the industry had feared it would have to pay. Lyndon Johnson immediately telephoned his congratulations to the negotiators, taking care to include...
...pair of his trousers when she outgrew her own clothes during pregnancy, and boasted that "no woman leaves a man like me." Well, she did, and he filed suit in a Paris court seeking to halt the book's serialization in Paris Match as an "intolerable intrusion." "In discreet" perhaps, shrugged the court-but Pablo, voilà votre...