Word: freude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Night of the Iguana. All horseplay and no headwork, the gossips sneered, will surely make John a dull picture. But Director Huston (Freud), as often before, has saucily tweaked the bluenoses. In ten wild weeks at a sunny place for shady people on Mexico's spectacular west coast, Huston and company put together a picture that excites the senses, persuades the mind, and even occasionally speaks to the spirit-one of the best movies ever made from a Tennessee Williams play...
...France, Russia, Spain, Italy) and the handful of friends he made-the most important of them women. These ladies included the Princess of Thurn and Taxis and the fabulous Lou AndreasSalome, who was his elder by 14 years and who deeply impressed-besides the poet-Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud. His love for Lou Andreas was a lifelong though mostly distant affair, interrupted briefly, as Biographer von Salis dryly observes, by his marriage to Clara Westhof. In an age that is congesting toward total togetherness, when even a Wordsworth can only wander lonely as a crowd, the solitary figure...
...glad-glanded college girl, she believes everything she reads or is told, and thus her pretty head is filled with every cliche in the current liberal establishment of ideas. Unhappily there is just one thing she can do for her country, for colonial freedom, for Zen enlightenment, for Freud, for minorities, and this she certainly does. For example, she takes the most improbable of her lovers, a cretin with a "radish-white" humped back, because he is so loathsome that he constitutes a superminority...
Barzun's bugaboo is science-not just the Bomb, but all the works of science. The trouble began with Newton, whose mechanical laws of the universe reduced man to an abstraction. Later, Newton was abetted by Darwin, who said man was at the mercy of evolution, and Freud, who made man a prisoner of his instincts. According to Barzun, there are not two warring cultures, as set forth in C. P. Snow's famed thesis. The war is over and science has won. The humanities have succumbed. The spurious social sciences with their lifeless jargon dominate modern thought...
...spite of his breathless baroque style, Barzun adds nothing new to the literature of dismay. As is often the case with prophets of doom, Barzun overlooks the fact that much of what he finds unpleasant today has always existed, and cannot be blamed on Freud, Darwin, science, literacy, or even advertising...