Word: editor
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Associate Editor John Leo, who suggested and wrote this week's story, first became fascinated with the subject during his college years at the University of Toronto. He was studying modern philosophy at the time, but a chance encounter with a paperback on Freud sent him burrowing through the master's voluminous collected works. Says Leo: "Here were the philosophers playing their bloodless word games, and Freud saying all these amazing things about real life." Now he is convinced that the three greatest thinkers of all time were Aristotle, Freud and Groucho Marx...
...continued his interest in psychiatry through subsequent jobs as an editor at Commonweal, book editor of the social science magazine Transaction (now Society), a New York Times reporter covering the behavioral sciences, and TIME'S behavior writer since 1974. During the past few years he has kept notes on the increasing, well, schizophrenia in the profession. Explains Leo: "Many psychiatrists now doubt they are engaged in a legitimate profession. Some are beginning to wonder if they have any more healing powers than a good bartender...
...Xurely you zhest," wrote Nancy May in a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe. "Now 1 have trouble with dzylophone and dzerox, and I still can't pronounce Xiaoping." Eugene Wu, director of Harvard University's Yenching Library, sounded depressed. "I don't even want to think about it," he moaned...
...Latin America, the cheeky seriocomics treat great thinkers with snappy drawings and humorous cartoon panels, presumably to appeal to the generation and others intimidated by reading the originals. "We're combining the popular Donald Duck form with serious intellectual thought," argues Pantheon Books' Tom Engelhardt, U.S. editor of the series' first title, the 158-page Marx for Beginners...
...fortnight ago, Government lawyers got a ten-day restraining order to stop the Progressive and its editor, Erwin Knoll, from publishing an article describing how an H-bomb is built. At a hearing scheduled for next week, they will argue for permanently prohibiting publication. The Government's case appears strong: the article is accurate enough, say Government experts, to help other countries develop the bomb. And the 1954 Atomic Energy Act specifically bans dissemination of secret information about atomic weapons. But if the Government wins, it will be the first time a U.S. court has stopped the press from...