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...that certain instinctive chill. The hair on the back of my neck almost stood up. The idea was that good." Allen's brainstorm: a 19-minute "Meeting of the Minds" inserted in his hour-long TV variety show, featuring Allen and actors playing Aristotle, Dostoevsky, Montaigne, Hegel, Freud and Clarence Darrow, the lot of them hashing over the wisdom of the ages. But NBC, unable to see in such a cerebral panel the laugh riot customarily expected of Comic Allen, summarily vetoed Thinker Allen and his sham philosophers. It was, allowed the network, perhaps a fine idea for some...
...Tenth Man. Paddy Chayefsky finds new material in a Long Island synagogue, when a mentally sick and abandoned girl is returned to life by ancient rites, as surrealism mixes with Freud, demonology with farce...
...play seemed to be a sort of indirect, 1960 temperance lecture linking the arms of Carry Nation and Sigmund Freud, 41-year-old Arthur William Matthew Carney was a good man to give it. An ex-alcoholic, he has solved the problem himself...
Long before Havelock Ellis died in 1939, his prestige as a sexologist had been overshadowed by Freud's. His Studies in the Psychology of Sex is so weighted with abnormal cases that to generalize from them is rather like taking a height norm from a sampling of basketball centers. His self-prized autobiography. My Life, is a talky, pseudo-candid aside. In his literary essays, e.g., on Diderot, Whitman, Ibsen, he was an appreciator but no critic. As a thinker he belongs to the age of the New Woman, with its feminists, pacifists and socialists-pressed flowers...
...Tenth Man. In a drab Mineola, L.I. synagogue full of picturesque Jews, Playwright Paddy Chayefsky mixes surrealism and Freud, demonology and farce to create a play that succeeds as theater but fails as anything deeper...