Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside are 10,000 followers of Mammon: unworking men, grandpas, stiletto-heeled tooties, indescribables, a sprinkling of M.I.T. professors. They mill around the closed-circuit TVs. The long rows of betting windows, the hot dog and beer stands. They spill out to the open-air section by the track, concentrating most heavily by the finish wire. They wander back and forth eating popcorn, clutching the long "green"--scarecrows stuffed with money instead of straw...
Under Miller's patient probing, any number of dread disorders may be identified. The anxiety syndrome and dominance frustration affect a dog who thinks that its master is too unmanly to protect the home; the animal feels that it must boss the household, and so attacks anybody who comes around. The secretary syndrome arises when the master works late at the office; the dog becomes tense and irritable because its master is not at home on time. In barrier frustration, the dog gets infuriated because it cannot break its lesh. Psychosexual misorientation is something esle...
Sibling Rivalry. Miller's Canine Behavior Center usually has two dozen dogs under treatment, and Miller has had a number of celebrity cases in his practice. He claims to have cured Kirk Douglas' apricot poodle of "terribly regressive" characteristics, disposed of the "postman syndrome" in the dogs of Lauren Bacall and Anthony Franciosa, and erased the dominance frustration in Katharine Hepburn's German shepherd. He did not have much luck with a case of sibling rivalry in Bob Hope's dogs, but he blames that partly on the Hopes, who did not show up for most...
Miller's chief technical contribution to the art of dog psychology is an item he calls the "Hi-Fido." Retailed for $11.95 along with training manuals, it is a tiny tuning fork, attached to a simple chain, that vibrates at 34,200 cycles per second-just above a dog's threshold of hearing. The sound creates a fleeting moment of distraction for the animal. When a dog owner spots his pet doing something wrong-such as chewing on the sofa-he simply tosses the Hi-Fido on the floor. The tuning fork vibrates, the dog is distracted...
...have before us, then a Shylock who is repeatedly called a dog. And this Shylock has indeed become a dog. He has, in fact, become top dog. The point, however, is that he is top dog among dogs (and bitches). If you do not like the idea of this view of the world, this should not keep you away from Kahn's production. For we are not likely to have a greater Shylock in our time than Morris Carnovsky...