Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intent to confirm the guilt or establish the innocence of Hiss," writes San Francisco psychoanalysist Meyer Zeligs in the preface to his "analysis" of the Hiss-Chambers case. The disavowal is necessary. Friendship and Fratricide only further complicates the already hopelessly complicated questions surrounding Alger Hiss's alleged crime. But Zeligs is less than consistent in his avowed aims: he denies at the outset any desire to prove Hiss's innocence, because he is treading on unsure ground; later the distinction between pschoanalysis and detective-work is ignored and finally abandoned when Zeligs finds certain propositions incompatible with the possibility...
...essence of Chambers' character, says Zeligs, is an overriding guilt dating back to the suicide of his brother Richard. Chambers imagined some sort of death pact with his younger, stronger and more personable brother, and since then has sought out brother-figures to befriend and betray. Alger Hiss was one such figure; son, according to Zeligs, were at least half a dozen of Chambers' fellow students, workers and party members...
...Your review of the book on Chambers and Hiss [Feb. 10] is, TIME-wise, strangely unruffled. You appear to rest your case on the tushery that dead men shouldn't be slandered, ho hum, as if TIME had grown big and strong on Confucianist milk. Why not work over a dead man-if that is what he deserves from a history he malevolently affected? Surely the point is that the author of this filthy act of vampirism deserves the contempt not only of those who would speak no evil of the dead, but of those who applaud such lonely...
...federal jury found Hiss guilty of lying when he denied having passed state secrets to Chambers, who had been a Communist spy. San Francisco's Dr. Meyer A. Zeligs asserts that he is not concerned with anyone's guilt or innocence. But he admits that "whatever imbalance" the book contains he has "carefully left untouched." That is putting it mildly. Zeligs has, in effect, undertaken to rewrite Chambers' autobiography, Witness, and reshape its author to fit a Procrustean bed of neuroses. To a more casual reader, Witness, while a little Wagnerian in style, presents the picture...
...wild, leching lad who committed suicide at 22. Chambers' whole life, to hear Zeligs tell it, became a search for a mystical brother whom he could force to re-enact a ritual death pact. The consummation of that search was the symbolic destruction of his "mystical brother," Alger Hiss...