Word: freude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sigmund Freud himself could not have contrived a ghastlier childhood for a poet. Rilke was born in Prague in 1875. Thanks to his mother he spent his first five years as a girl. Thanks to his father he spent five more years (aged 10 to 15) in the hell of a military school. He came out of it a hypersensitive androgyne, who wrote facile poetry and worse prose, traveled in Italy and Russia, gradually crystallized the beginnings of a serious art in which virginity, roses and death held almost obsessive symbolic values...
...personality of the Japanese. At home he is "serene and tender," is so hypersensitive he requires vases of flowers in his subway trains; in uniform he is "as ruthless as the Prussian sergeant" and is capable of such atrocities as the Rape of Nanking. In explaining him Hauser eschews Freud for Cervantes: he is "a frustrated knight whose quixotic sense of chivalry makes him fight windmills and cut his belly if he is defeated." Thus millions of Japanese have been convinced of the sanctity of their service to China, have regarded it somewhat as a "charity bazaar." Says Hauser...
...Like Freud, he helped destroy the 18th-and 19th-Century illusion that man is a rational creature. Like William Graham Sumner (Folkways), he disturbed civilization by disclosing the relativity of morals...
Ralph Blood, the senior (and narrator), is definitely not the clean-cut type-at least he would hate to think so. He reads Freud and Will Durant and Walter B. Pitkin; when his girl friend tells him she has dreamed of snakes, his eyebrows almost scalp him. His mannerisms, down to the last flickering cheek-muscle, were learned at the movies; he is as full of polysyllables as a colored preacher. His girl, at the start, is Harriet Stevens, who hopes to become a concert pianist and whose mother is in the Social Register. He and Harriet "explore each other...
...Freedman's complaint that the Advocate prints unsufficient (sic) fiction reflecting "college life," one can only reply that the Advocate has never set itself up as a literary version of the Crimson, that if the contributors choose to occupy themselves with what Mr. Freedman so quaintly described as "Freud and frou-frou," it is in itself a reflection of a prevalent spirit, and that any significant change in the contents of the magazine will come not through peevish, unsubstantiated complaints via the daily press, but rather through attention to the elementary principals of literary form. Marvin Barrett '42, President...