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...White House luncheon on the economy on Tuesday, the Budget Director brought along Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, who reinforced Stockman's argument against Regan's position. But the President remained unmoved, opposing any big tax increase. Said one Republican Congressman: "Reagan and Regan were the only ones in the room who agreed on that-and they constituted a majority...
Donald C. Malcolm Long Beach, Calif...
...19th Coalition. Formed about two years ago by Weather Undergrounders and named for the common birthday of Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh, the group is composed of 34 white women and six white men who see themselves as foot soldiers in the battle for black liberation. Its members operate above ground, and in September some protested a U.S. tour by a South Africa rugby team by hurling acid at New York City policemen...
...JANET MALCOLM HANDLES these questions deftly. If, as Aaron Green contends, analysts are voyeurs "at the window watching what's going on in the bedroom, getting very excited, but not jumping into the fray," then Malcolm gives a solid boost to anyone who wants to be a meta-voyeur--someone to peep in on the bedroom and the first voyeur too. She falters only once, rambling through several pages of some sort of amateur Jungian explanation of Freud's motivations for giving a particular patient pseudonym. Except for this humorously obsessional bit of lay analysis, Malcolm has an intelligent authorial...
...there is one last problem. A staff writer on The New Yorker, Malcolm is an adept practitioner of that serious-but-silky prose. The writing is polished and stainless; there is something appropriate about both her and Green speaking in the cultured dialect of the uptown Manhattan brownstone. It seems the entire dramatis personae of the New York Psychoanalytic Society must speak roughly the same way. Nonetheless, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession is fascinating. But the powerful ideas of psychoanalysis and the murkiness they dredge out of all our sick psyches somehow require a more patient, vigorous prose...