Word: hermeticism
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Sharp Critic. In the midst of his success, Harris has one regret: "My readers and my patients seem to understand me better than other psychiatrists do." Indeed, President Burness Moore of the American Psychoanalytic Association finds transactional analysis "superficial," and Psychiatrist James Gordon of Washington, D.C., calls it "a hermetic...
Grandmother De specializes in winding her 15 clocks and never let ting Egan's mother forget that she mar ried beneath herself. The truth is that outside the hermetic DeWhit family, Egan Fletcher Sr. is a famous professional baseball player. He plays some unspecified position with a club known...
A besetting problem for experimenters is that people no longer expect to get their necessary information from art; it was this gap that the artist-made video tape promised to close. But an event does not automatically gain aesthetic meaning because it is recorded, handheld, on half-inch tape. Too...
No taint of reality sullies Noël Coward. In his plays and musicals, no man toils, no woman spins and no child is seen, let alone heard. There are no families, only menages of bright, brittle and bizarre people for whom life is one long marvelous party. His is...
For nearly hermetic privacy, no place was better than Camp David on Maryland's Catoctin Mountain. Tricia especially liked getting away from the omnipresent guards and tourists around the White House grounds. Along with privacy, the camp, like a resort hotel, offered swimming, tennis, skeet shooting, putting green, movies, bicycling...