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...Smith, a Navy captain, who is director of psychiatry at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., "found symptoms of major depressive disorder," and said that Cunningham "was having suicidal ideation." Smith was "concerned enough to recommend that he be hospitalized, but Mr. Cunningham refused," wrote Dr. Saul Faerstein, who also been consulted by such celebrities in trouble as O.J. Simpson and Christian Brando...
...prosecution's choices, Psychiatrist Saul Faerstein, goes a step further; he sees the tapes as proof that the whole hypnosis was a hype. Says he: "Bianchi was almost a caricature of a hypnotized person, with eyes closed and head bobbing-a pseudo trance." The other prosecution choice. Psychiatrist Martin Orne, staged his own "double hallucination" test of Bianchi. After trying to hypnotize the killer, Orne asked him to shake hands with an imaginary figure that he identified as Bianchi's attorney Dean Brett. Then Orne had the real Brett enter the room. Confused, Bianchi asked if Brett could...
There are three short meditations on "Jewish Identity." There is refreshing poetry by Chana Faerstein, John Morgan, and Andras Hamori. There are three thoughtful and informative studies of "new student action groups" by three new student activists. Finally, three contributions which the table of contents calls simply "articles...
Andras Hamori is less fun to read, but his imagery is invariably exact, and the moods he maintains are more demanding than Miss Faerstein's. John Morgan's sinuous and complicated poem, "Mississippi," fails unless the reader retraces its rather flat lines several times. It contains a lot of detail unnecessary to its message or tone...
...calling the poetry in this edition refreshing, I have in mind particularly the verses by Chana Faerstein. Her imagery is far from flawless ("Pearly and luminous as butterflies") and its density at times approaches contrivance ("Mousing up these lion paws of mountains"), but again and again the produces quickly paced lines that are genuinely exhiliarating "The weather here is salt; I want to scrub my soul in it. Typically, her best poem, Life Goes to a Party in Chelm, is her most audecious. It skips outrageously in and out of metaphores but they are never mixed, and she finally succeeds...