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...which once abhorred sensational crimes and lectured its competitors for trading in them, has lately shocked its readers-and amazed many of its staff-by its ogle-eyed handling of rape cases, sodomy trials, abortions, prostitution. It glossed its coverage slightly with Freudian patter, but it spared no details...
...Gary. It also reports one or two murders, a suicide or two, a raid on a dingy brothel (in which Anne-Charlotte is caught), and an unflagging succession of orgiastic parties at which the tobacco scions and their bibulous set try to drown their boredom. Out of these Freudian fandangos, Author Wilder has written a highly readable novel whose episodes are frequently breathless, whose dialogue is crisp, crackling and gamy. The total effect is like watching laboratory rats whirl around more & more madly in a botr tie exhausted of everything but oxygen. The prose paces the pathology...
Lillian also knew some of the less Freudian folk in Willowspring-honest fellows who reached halting conclusions about politics and life. They said, in what Novelist Howard believes to be Pennsylvania dialect: "Maybe this here givern-givern-givernment of the United States was found-foundered by the people fer the people...
...rafters of Manhattan's $20,000,000-endowed Juilliard School of Music were still shaking. The new president had just taken over-35-year-old William Schuman, prolific young symphonist whose latest performed composition was a score for the Ballet Theatre's Freudian ballet, Undertow, which is all about a sex murder. Said Schuman of his new job at Juilliard: "It's like Westbrook Pegler taking over PM." Actually it was more like a New Republic editor taking over the Saturday Evening Post...
Died. Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, 78, neuropsychiatrist, editor (Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease), belligerent Freudian, whose testimony in 1907 saved Harry K. Thaw from the electric chair; after long illness; at Huletts Landing, N.Y. He once told a group of fellow alienists that he believed Irving Berlin's mother must have had a syncopated heartbeat; a surprised confrere said that he had examined her and found...