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...thought it was a violation of friendship to ask for a raise, anxious fathers sand possessive mothers. Village men and women explaining themselves in an endless babble of self-interest, self-loathing, and evasion." Bernard and Huey, Feiffer expains, were "Robert Benechley heroes launched into the Age of Freud...
DIED. Anna Freud, 86, pioneer of child psychoanalysis, whose theories advanced the work of her famous father Sigmund; in London. She opposed those who advocated the analysis of pre-verbal children and emphasized the purposeful care of parents and teachers. Applying in practice what she asserted on paper (in eight eloquent volumes), the self-effacing Freud established the first day nursery in Vienna and trained a generation of followers at the celebrated Hampstead Child-Therapy Clinic in England. She habitually shunned publicity and deferred to the parent whom she nursed in life and steadfastly defended in death. "I didn...
Annnh! Annnh! Annnh! The repeating pierce of shrill fire alarms has become a staple for Lowellians at all hours. In the wee hours of the morning they catapult you from bed, ending sweet dreams with an abruptness Freud never could have explained. At breakfast they jar your attention from your Raisin-Bran, startling you into sudden alertness more effectively than the strongest black coffee. These aren't the lyric chimes of the famed House bells. They are Harvard's reminder to Lowellians that, mid way through October, construction still continues on the half century old structure. And they...
...years of math, three of a laboratory science, two of music and two years each of Greek and French. That is just about it. This modern liberal arts version of the trivium and quadrivium includes no such novelties as psychology (except what can be learned in the works of Freud and William James) and no sociology (except perhaps Jane Austen...
Fritz Stern, professor of history at Columbia: "There is a certain absurdity and arbitrariness in making such Lists." Nonetheless: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, the Bible, King Lear, Hobbes' Leviathan and Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents...