Word: hypnotists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That domination determines both their fates. When they meet again accidentally after the Anschluss, Wirthof has joined the SS and become an unthinking mouthpiece for Nazi ideology. Kazakh, a purposeless intellectual uncertain about his future or his feelings, has turned from engineering to become a hypnotist and a pioneer in advertising with nouveau riche connections. Curiously, it is Kazakh who comes closest to being a callous cynic. Wirthof, despite his crass behavior in bordellos, his egotistic mistreatment of acquaintances and his sensual brutality, is actually the overemotional romantic...
...hunching his shoulders and reeling around like Quasimodo doing the lindy-still bring serious letters from shut-ins commending his courage for appearing despite such an obviously bad case of Bell's palsy. Jabbing and pointing his finger like a traffic cop, he once brought on a hypnotist with the familiar "Here he is!" and poked the poor fellow...
More of the Shame. The voice belonged not to a hypnotist but to Lee Strasberg, 65, director of the Actors Studio, teaching method acting for the first time in Europe. "You seemed even to have run through a wall," he scolded after the actress' first effort to follow his commands. "When you smoked a cigarette, you held your fingers together as though you were sucking them. The cigarette had no taste, no reality. Now let's try again...
...Trains is a series of contradictions: a tragic comedy, a peaceful war movie, a success story of a failure. The failure is Miles, a railway apprentice (Vaclav Neckar), who somehow never gets his signals straight. The fault, shown in whacky flashbacks, appears to be his pedigree. His grandfather, a hypnotist, tried to stop a German tank by putting the whammy on it; his father, a railroad man retired at 48, has settled on a sin to his liking: sloth. Now, the boy prepares to ascend the family tree and take the inevitable fall...
Psychiatrist Herbert Spiegel, an assistant professor in Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Dr. James H. Ryan, a Columbia instructor, asked themselves the question: Is the physical presence of the hypnotist necessary to evoke the trance state? Theoretically, the answer should be no, they thought, because the capacity to go into a trance lies within the subject. To make sure, they ran tests on two subjects. Both were known to be hypnotizable, but only one of them had ever been hypnotized by either Spiegel or Ryan...