Word: interview
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...payment of the orchestra's state subsidy, reduced it to near bankruptcy. When FurtwĠngler issued a statement that art could not flourish under political domination, Goebbels cracked: "Politics, too, is an art, and what is more, the highest and most comprehensive art of all." An interview between FurtwĠngler and Hitler produced two hours of shouting and led to one interesting aftermath: when FurtwĠngler refused to conduct at Nürnberg party rallies, Hitler backed...
Anti-Nazi La Prensa, noting that Secretary Hull had made his charge in a press interview, deplored "diplomatic debate . . . outside normal procedure," observed that it exposed a statesman to "the danger of saying more than he would say in direct contacts...
...shock therapy works: some think results come from temporarily depriving the brain of oxygen or of sugar, its only food; some suggest that individual attention and the short psychiatric session following each shock are really what do the trick. Otherwise, because of the psychiatrist shortage, a therapeutic psychiatric interview is a rare event in a state mental hospital...
...each day until a day arrives when he goes into a coma. On succeeding days, he gets the same dose or slightly less, with the object of keeping him under about three hours. He is brought out by a sugary drink or injection, after which he has a psychiatric interview and a big, late breakfast...
...sanitorium in New Hampshire, young Sidis returned to Harvard. His lifelong physical awkwardness was already apparent. His "marked distrust of people" did not prevent him from graduating cum laude in 1914, aged 16. Reporters bypassed such classmates as Leverett Saltonstall and Sumner Welles in their eagerness to interview the prodigy. He told them: "I want to live the perfect life. The only way to live the perfect life is to live it in seclusion. I have always hated crowds." But he stayed on to breeze through Harvard Law School. At 20 he was teaching mathematics in Texas' Rice Institute...