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...like a TV series, a splicing of Masterpiece Theater and The Roadrunner Hour. It features hordes of comic-strip Nazis goose-stepping into the life of the Freud family, the latter annoyingly over-endowed with satiric wit. Freud cuts a shabbily sympathetic figure, indulging his id with streams of forbidden cigars, lisping out lines like. "Is it my fault that I hit on it first? Did, anything prevent you from discovering psychoanalysis?", flaunting a preoccupation with incest, anality, and just about everything else the Viennese bourgeoisie lacked a penchant...
Certain ethnic groups, Vaillant found, are collectively maladaptive. Irish men in the study generally grew up in families where alcohol was forbidden, drinking took place apart from meals and away from home, and male drunkenness was tacitly admired. The Irish in the survey also became alcohol dependent seven times as frequently as the Italians, who as children learned that drunkenness was frowned on and drank with family groups and with meals (thus diminishing the addictive effect of the alcohol "high"). To Vaillant, these sharp differences (which are also true of the more alcoholic Northern Europeans as contrasted to moderate Jews...
...must sign a little-noted, routine document requiring him to submit in writing, in advance, the intended content of all telephone calls involving national security. If that rule is violated, the document states, "the censor will have to interfere by cutting off the call to prevent the transmission of forbidden news items...
...lover of my fellow creatures, a mere nameless worker for the cause-I aspire to be no more. In none of the textbooks of socialism is human affection expressly forbidden...
Toward this end, Clark is eating a varied diet and gradually increasing his activity. His meals include bacon and eggs, potatoes and gravy, vegetables and lemon pie, quite a change since January, when he was forbidden to taste the heart-shaped chocolate cake that was baked for his 62nd birthday. Clark, who had been a 6-handicap golfer, avidly follows sports on TV and enjoys reading the letters that have arrived by the thousands. He was particularly pleased when a Seattle hospital named a coronary wing after him. "Just think," he said dryly, "I didn't have...