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Scot MacDonald, who had used these very words to exhort the Conference to action, had nothing to say to the Press, looked haggard...
More scientific, more sympathetic to Author Zweig is Sigmund Freud, whose pyscho-analysis makes "comprehensible . . . the voices that exhort us or allure us behind our waking words and our waking consciousness and to whose bidding we generally pay more heed than to that of our recognized will." Freud got his first real start in Paris under the famed Charcot who cured hysterical paralysis by hypnotic suggestion. Thereafter Freud made a systematic study of the subconscious, discovered the truth of the Chinese proverb: "What is pent up in the deepest recesses of the heart, sneezes itself...
...clattered a two-horse buggy in which sat a pucker-faced little old man with wiry grey hair. Whenever his vehicle was stopped by red traffic lights or his horses veered off to graze at curb grass, the old man would stand up on the buggy seat and exhort passing citizens-workers from the foundries, the machine shops, the glass factories, attendants at the State Insane Asylum, farmers from Stark County-to vote for him as Republican nominee for Mayor. With the fervor of an evangelist promising heaven, the old campaigner in his stand-up collar and wide-brimmed black...
...that there should be a reduction in acreage." Acceptance-in-principle is a useful phrase. The Conference did adopt a sop resolution in which it stated the obvious fact that reduction in acreage would ease the world wheat situation, but no chief delegate, except Sam McKelvie, even promised to exhort farmers to "voluntarily reduce...
...Death to the rich!" Communist agitators exhort the peasants. "Take what you want instead of paying rent. Land to the poor...