Word: freude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet the literary standards of the Pickwick papers, but no attempt was made to do so, and we dare say that there is doubt that we could, if we attempted to do so. And like all reviewers, who must read something into everything, we tried to avoid Freud and didn't give John Harvard two thoughts...
...Freud & Voodoo. Dorothy grew up in a family of entertainers, bowed in Cleveland at the age of five in a family act. Eartha was a South Carolina farmer's daughter, and long before she reached Manhattan's Katherine Dunham dance school, at 16, she knew poverty and had a brush with voodoo (she still recalls how voodoo charms were found in the mattress after a relative died). Both Eartha and Dorothy made their way to the top through the nightclub circuit as singers, but think of themselves primarily as actresses. This season both made big acting hits, Dorothy...
Behind the entertainment whirl, the girls hanker after some intellectual life. Dorothy Dandridge slips into a pink shirt and tight slacks and thinks seriously about her private personality. As a divorcee, she is faced with raising her nine-year-old daughter, has delved into Freud and Norman Vincent Peale to help herself understand the problem...
Seneca to Freud. Lewis would say the same of the Christianizing of Europe, a process once regarded as "unique [and] irreversible." "But we have seen the opposite process . . . Roughly speaking, we may say that whereas all history was for our ancestors divided into two periods, the pre-Christian and the Christian . . . for us it falls into three-the pre-Christian, the Christian, and what may reasonably be called the post-Christian . . . It appears to me that the second change is even more radical than the first. Christians and Pagans had much more in common with each other than either...
...Vintage Books (Knopf), whose 14 titles have sold 300,000 copies and include among the bestsellers De Tocqueville's Democracy in America and Freud's Moses and Monotheism (price...