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EXPRESSING WILLIE? A delightfully sensitive study of the havoc wrought by temperament in a plain business man. BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK? Deft and biting satire, wreaking a Freudian revenge on the Rotary clubs...
That he does not quite know what he is trying to say, that he does not quite understand himself, that he is over-impressed by Freudian psychology and sex symbols, that he is overfond of dwelling on the pathological and perverted, that all this belongs in the medical laboratory rather than in the ranks of literature?that is my general opinion. However, I must say that I am frequently caught by what I do feel is, occasionally, a beautifully rhythmical style, and, at his unpleasantest, some times, a singularly moving power, as in I Want to Know Why, Brothers...
...would be understandable if the authorities denied the student's appeal on the ground that a course in that subject is unnecessary. If an age of Freudian novels and the Enlightenment of Youth, when "he facts of life" are taught, at the Mayor's request, to children in the New York public schools, it might not be supposed that anyone would care to elect the subject in college. Medieval documents, recently investigated by a University professor, have disclosed the knowledge that love was a disease well understood even by our ancestors of eight centuries ago, a fact which would seem...
...must be obvious to the least informed student of Psychology that here is one of the outcrops of a Freudian repression. The mentality of these marginal annotators, to judge from their manuscript, is somewhat lower than that of the higher Simiidae, and on a level with that of an usher in the movies, an amen-snorter in a Cumberland plateau camp-meeting, or a Dr. Frank Crane. Therefore, in any gathering of civilized men, they are compelled to remain silent, and this for two reasons: first, because they cannot understand the conversation; and second, because their remarks cause rude mirth...
...might quarrel with Mr. Witter Bynner ('02) for disturbing buried desires; for no sooner has the Editorial with Common Sense buried King Spirits than along come most enchanting pictures of Cantors, with numberless grapes and Bacchus with "viney patterns of the veining of his nose." After that the Freudian wish is no more and the sole remaining bottle "though it doubles me rheumatic" is drained to Socrates! In striving for a sustained note Mr. Norris succeeds rather better than do Mr. Auslander and Mr. Cole, though not in form. After all, considering the local wealth of poets, a reviewer...