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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...
Ever since Freudian patter became the common currency of the cocktail hour, the idea has been spreading that people who have accidents are "accident-prone." But for a massive group of accident victims-the 8,000 U.S. pedestrians killed each year by motor vehicles-there is no clear medical evidence one way or the other. Last week an American College of Surgeons meeting in Boston learned the results of an intensive and ingenious study that enlisted experts from the New York State Department of Health and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Cornell University Medical College, the office of New York...