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...knock four years off his age (he was born in 1925, not 1929). They also have Wilson referring to Ulysses S. Grant's "Personal Memoirs" under the title "Personal Veracity." Did they misread Wilson's notoriously crabby handwriting (the earlier collection quotes it accurately)? Or was it a Freudian slip on Wilson's part? Either way the mistake goes, literally, unnoted. The amazing thing is that, in spite of the efforts of the editors to get in the way of the readability of these letters, they still manage to hold your interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Edmund Wilson's Life in Letters | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...then autism research took a badly wrong turn. Asperger's keen insights languished in Europe's postwar turmoil, and Kanner's were overrun by the Freudian juggernaut. Children were not born autistic, experts insisted, but became that way because their parents, especially mothers, were cold and unnurturing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secrets of Autism | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

Robert Baden-Powell, the British military hero who founded the Boy Scouts, had an intense interest in teenage boys and their bodies. This interest expressed itself with a forthright innocence that to our post-Freudian sensibilities seems to have pretty clear sexual overtones. There is no evidence that Baden-Powell ever acted on this aspect of his enthusiasm for youth, and scouting enthusiasts both deny and resent the implication. But the specter of what was on Baden-Powell's mind might well make modern American parents reluctant to send their sons off for a wholesome weekend in the woods with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Thin Line Between Love and Lust | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

...money and greater fame lie but also because those who achieve translation are inordinately celebrated and esteemed at home. In their eagerness to secure that export seal of cultural approval they often try to style their characters according to Western fashions and modes. Or ensconce beneath their native kimonos Freudian explanations, Marxist interpretations and existential quests. But since Western publishers are traditionally xenophobic themselves, few Japanese writers manage to negotiate the crossover. The coin of any realm?runaway domestic best sellerdom?is the surest ticket out of Japan. But occasionally literary laurels based on distinctive work over an extended career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeking Credit Offshore | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...Maybe he does. Or a gentile jockstrap masquerading as a Freudian analyst (and fooling no one). Or Howard Hughes. But the motive for Gore's beard is not ideological. The beard is not a badge - not a party uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al Gore, and Other Famous Bearded Men | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

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