Word: freuds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gropius himself a certain serenity these days. "My reputation," he says with frankness but not vanity, "has penetrated through. Now these things come to me." Next month the city of Frankfurt will award him its coveted Goethe Prize, which it has given to Thomas Mann, Albert Schweitzer and Sigmund Freud. Next fall the Duke of Edinburgh will present Gropius with the gold medal of Britain's Royal Society of Arts. Will Gropius have time next month to attend the formal opening of the embassy in Athens? "No. I don't think I can make...
...surprising private joke; as the lovers loll in a boathouse, brooding over the sin they are about to commit, an enormous black fish appears in the water below. The adulterers regard it for a moment. Then one of them, mocking psychiatry and symbol-mad film directors, laughs wryly "at Freud's theories," and they get back to their lovemaking...
DRAMA. The only survivors are the Pulitzer-prizewinning idyl, All the Way Home; A Far Country, more or less how young Dr. Freud discovered psychoanalysis in three easy sessions; The Best Man, Gore Vidal's breathless but depthless dramatization of electoral politics; and A Taste of Honey, which mixes tenderness and bitterness in a raffish setting. Plus last season's The Miracle Worker, superb even without the original cast...
DRAMA. The only survivors are the Pulitzer-prizewinning idyl, All the Way Home; A Far Country, more or less how young Dr. Freud discovered psychoanalysis in three easy sessions; The Best Man, Gore Vidal's breathless but depthless dramatization of electoral politics; and A Taste of Honey, which mixes tenderness and bitterness in a raffish setting. Plus last season's The Miracle Worker, superb even without the original cast...
...first wave of what might be called the Counter-Industrial Revolution. His obsession with myths, magic and symbols was a poet's way of fighting the machine. In a poet's intuitive fashion, he was plumbing the "collective unconscious" before Jung labeled it, celebrating the irrational before Freud discovered its starring role. Far from having the gift of self-analysis, Yeats possessed instead a talent for endless self-dramatization. There are extended comments in the essays on Shakespeare, Shelley, Blake, William Morris and Balzac, but one quickly discovers that these are pseudonyms for William Butler Yeats. Then there...