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Judgments in Journalese. It takes a cool, mildly psychoanalytical, yet not quite Freudian view of the central character; it takes something of a doctrinaire, but not fully Marxian view of political events. It makes passing mention of the vices, mistresses and scandals of historic figures, as illustration of their human frailty...
Snatches of Magritte's dream world, shown in Paris last fortnight, proved as pleasing as ever. Magritte, a surrealist with a sense of humor, cares little for the Freudian froufrou that once made his colleagues seem different and daring. His paintings often mean just what their titles say: Sea Sickness-a green, checkered coat crumpled beneath the glare of a garish orange sun; The Last Meal-a macabre scene of a candlelit room, in which tears drop from nowhere and a woman brings a dying man an indigestible last supper of wine, a carrot and a hard-boiled...
...long been fascinated by the story of Lizzie Borden, the Fall River (Mass.) spinster who was tried in the '90s for the ax murder of her father and stepmother. Last year ("because I was feeling gloomy and murderous") she started building a ballet to show in Freudian terms how a young girl might get worked up to murder. One difference: her heroine commits the murders onstage and hangs; Lizzie Borden was acquitted...
...first women ordained in the Congregational Church. A forceful and free-thinking person (she once sincerely assured her congregation "that if they could find a spiritual up lift elsewhere, there was no reason for coming to church"), Mrs. Eastman spent her last, vigorous year learning to swim, undergoing a Freudian analysis and deciding to leave her church. Her advice to her son, to "live out of yourself persistently," helped him decide at an early age "to live a life in which something should happen besides birth, death, disease and marriage...
Died. Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, 73, dean of U.S. psychiatrists, first (1909) to translate Sigmund Freud into English; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Austrian-born Dr. Brill, until his fatal illness, remained a practicing psychoanalyst, a teacher at Columbia and N.Y.U., the leading U.S. Freudian...