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Psychologists have long known that a person sees more than he realizes. The brain registers impressions that flash past too quickly to be consciously noted, uses the subconscious impressions to shape opinions and ideas. This week a New York University psychologist told how subconscious sight was used to fool subjects into thinking that a static portrait was really changing...
...charting of the ebb and flow of war's malignant tides, the movie ruthlessly sends its heroine into action for both sides; yet she proves to be neither turncoat nor indecisive fool nor coward. Dr. Helga Reinbeck (played with passionate intensity by Europe's fast-rising Maria Schell) is serving as head nurse in a German field hospital. By a ruse, a band of partisans whose own doctor is severely wounded succeeds in kidnaping her. After the partisans' doctor dies in her care, they offer her a grim choice: help us or follow him. The decision tears...
...intravenous. There is Lawyer Arthur Winner Sr., a dispassionate Victorian man of reason, his son's model and hero. An agnostic, he has been cut down in the fullness of life by cancer, and young Arthur learns his first sobering lesson-"How dies the wise man ... as the fool." With life's occasional flair for overemphasis, the lesson is repeated when Arthur's first wife, Hope, dies from the aftereffects of childbirth. Something else has died first-the youthful illusion that they had fallen in love with each other, when they had only fallen in love with...
...even coyotes, are always trotting across my terrace," lamented the pointless counterpoint of the brave new world. On Manhattan: "The psychological cost of living is rather high in New York. I find the streets horrifying and spend most of my time in my hotel room in a sort of fool's paradise." On television: "Who needs that little screen with disgusting little grey figures hopping around?" On writing: "It's getting to the point where no young man can live on straight writing. He has to go into another job, like doing television scripts-a fearful profession...
...paper, and they drank themselves to sleep every night and went to bed with their socks on." But now he, too, has reluctantly begun to mellow. "I've lost the hop on my fast one," he said last week, "and I've lost the will to fool 'em with junk any more. I guess, really, I've outgrown this...