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...seems hopelessly impractical. The sins of flaming youth, it seems, are laid to the fathers by psychoanalysis, and the fathers return the compliment. What is more, from the point of view of the academicians, psychopathology is no science, and never will be, and hence it is damned. The kernel of it all is that the blue print of the mental underworld which it submits to our attention is so compromising to us all that at bottom we recoil. Psychopathology is, like "un bon petit diable", always up to mischief, and hence may be counted upon to infuriate the disciplined thinker...
...Kernel of the speech was yet another thought. The President-Reject said: "While it is true that every party must adhere to its fundamental principles, obstruction and blockade for the sole purpose of embarrassing the party in power are not calculated to promote the best interests of the country. It would be regarded as a constructive achievement if the Democratic party at Washington were to formulate a program, adopt it, offer it to the Congress of the United States and there defend it. A refusal on the part of the party in power to accept it or their inability...
...works with which he has to deal, a mere investigation and discussion of what may be called the facts of the novels--their construction, their action, even their dramatic quality--however painstaking and exact it might be, would be of little value. One must go deeper to find the kernel; one must pierce the shell of the detective story and delve deep into the psychological development of the works, for in them is mirrored the development not only of Dostoevsky's idea, but of Dostoevsky himself. When one has done that, the man who wrote the "Notes from Underground...
...title which implies all that a gossip-loving public has long been led to expect of her. But she lets them down. Chapter after chapter denies the gossip about her trip to Russia with Kamenev (Mme. K.'s jealousy counteracting her husband's hospitality), her visit to Kernel Pasha (another wife's jealousy interfering), her camping trip with Charlie Chaplin (the press descending on the fifth day to claim him for its own). And it is not as a wanderlusty siren that she presents herself, but as the brave, beautiful woman who rushes in with passionate intellectual...
Dictator-President Mustafa Kernel Pasha, styled Ghazi, "The Victorious," issued an executive order: "Throughout the Turkish Republic no toy or recreational device shall be adorned in any manner with the colors of a foreign power."- Lenient, the Dictator made his decree non-retroactive; but in Constantinople the arrested kite-fliers were severely rebuked before being released, blubbering...