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This was the turning point into "pure" psychology. In partnership with Dr. Josef Breuer (1842-1925), Freud published the case histories of five victims of hysteria-the most notable of which was the "Case of Anna O." Breuer had discovered that Anna tended to lose her symptoms if she were allowed to talk about them; Anna herself coined the happy phrase "chimney sweeping" to describe such therapy, and thus led the way to the idea of psychological "catharsis...
TIME'S Letters Department finally located Concertmaster Gingold, who had moved from Detroit to Cleveland, and forwarded his address to Reader Efrati. A few weeks later, back came a letter from Efrati announcing that his hunch was right. "I am happy to inform you," he wrote, "that Mr. Josef Gingold has replied to my letter, and he is the cousin I have been looking for during the past 13 years...
...your magazine and the way it puts the information in front of the reader, I never miss a single column. I had my reward this week when I unexpectedly discovered something I have spent years looking for." The discovery was the mention of a concertmaster by the name of Josef Gingold, from Detroit. Continued Reader Efrati: "This is the name and most probable profession of my mother's cousin, who, when I last heard, was considered the musical genius of our family. I lost almost my whole family, which was exterminated by the Nazis in Poland. No wonder, then...
When the local Reds came around one day and told Vaclav Uhlik that they were going to nationalize his small machine shop in Pilsen, Vaclav made up his mind. He would escape to the West. Cautiously, he enlisted some friends in his plan: two Czech soldiers, a gardener named Josef Pisarik, Libuse Cloud, who had married an American G.I. from Sioux City back in 1949, but had never been able to get out of Czechoslovakia to join him. Then Vaclav swapped his most precious possession, a diesel engine, for a beaten-up British halftrack abandoned after...
Lohengrin was ably conducted by Hamburg's Josef Keilberth, and Vienna's Klemens Krauss led Parsifal the next night...