Word: freudians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young architect who meets the girl he once loved as a child in Paris, learns that she is married but continues to carry on a sort of astral affair with her in his dreams. The opera, like the book, juxtaposes scenes of fact and fantasy in a pre-Freudian demonstration of the relation between the inner and outer life. At Ibbetson's premiere, the hero's curiously frustrated longings were enough to reduce the audience to tears, but at last week's revival they often seemed fussily oldfashioned; Du Maurier's heroine is such a thoroughgoing...
What possesses the modern playgoer? Above all, it is the chance to get away from modern drama that represents little more than introverted self-communion, from little plays about miserable little people. In Shakespeare, he sees characters probed in Freudian depth, without the jargon. Instead of words that plop over the footlights like dead tennis balls, he hears language that surges like the sea. The modern stage bleats with special pleadings...
...Freudian Slip. In Dallas, on a final exam, a Southern Methodist University coed misspelled a word but otherwise correctly identified the fifth precept of Buddhism: "Do not be unchased...
...Dora's diabolical double, a cute cookie who secretly prearranges the roses and from time to time winks wickedly at the audience. She plays both parts brilliantly in Bells, especially in the brief blackout that describes a disastrous blind date. In a rapid succession of hilarious Freudian slips, Judy bends the young man's cigarette to a limp parabola, splatters his drink on his lap, butts him with her head and finally, as she brushes by a blazing dish of crepes suzette, goes up in flames...
Were all U.S. fiction written by American regionalists. man's mind might often seem to have no mountains; all might appear one vast, pre-Freudian plane. There are deft, complex exceptions, such as Kentucky's unjustly forgotten Elizabeth Madox (The Time of Man) Roberts, Nevada-bred Walter Van Tilburg (The Ox-Bow Incident) Clark. But generally the regional writer is a landscape artist, pure and psychologically all too simple. What is best in his books is his sense of the soil, of the unspoken drama of work or conflict on the earth. In two new regional novels...