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...tung appeared to be rejecting this solution in a statement last week that any "middle road" between Communism and capitalism was "utter hypocrisy and thorough bankruptcy." Chinese Communists have been crying for coalition; perhaps they now thought they would not have to stop at that halfway house to complete control...
...songs he sang merited this treatment. Sometimes they were familiar, like the hard-driving "John Henry" or the insinuating "Water Cresses." Sometimes they were new pieces like "Lulu is a Lady." Halfway through the program, the hollow of his threat was glistening, for he was working hard, plucking handfuls of notes from his guitar and circling the hall with his voice. When he announced a song the audience knew, they picked it up with a murmur and relished it among themselves with a nod or smile. They came back at him with a verse if he asked for it. Singing...
With the season just approaching the halfway mark, in juries, mid-term study jitters, and plain bench boredom are cutting the eight House squads smaller...
...months of entreaty, a 76-year-old Fosston, Minn, farmer named Walter Morgan got a pilot to take him aloft for a parachute jump. He leaped out of the plane at 1,800 feet, gave 2,000 spectators near heart failure by letting himself fall free until he was halfway to the ground. Then he yanked his rip cord, landed calmly in a field, said: "That's what an old man can do when he lets liquor alone...
Before Freud, psychiatrists had worked on the "insane." They did not bother with-in fact, they knew almost nothing about-the infinitely larger number of people who weave a miserable course halfway between the mad and the crotchety. After taking his M.D., Freud "specialized in structural diseases of the nervous system. He was fascinated by patients who had "pains," but no structural disorders-i.e., neurotics. The key problem with a neurotic patient, he decided, was to get him to "remember" things that had been "forgotten"-not forgotten in the usual sense, but "repressed"' because they were too painful...