Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world of multiple estates, private aircraft and gracious entertaining in a circle of New York's theatrical, intellectual and political elite. Edgar Bronfman, 46, owns a $750,000, 174-acre estate in Yorktown, some 35 miles north of New York City in Westchester County, and two fashionable Manhattan apartments, one on Park Avenue valued at $1.5 million, the other a penthouse on Fifth Avenue. Chair man of Seagrams Company Ltd., he is a handsome, hard-driving businessman with an often mercurial temper. But in the kidnap crisis involving his son, he displayed remarkable patience and poise under severe stress...
...childhood, Peter Kaufman, said that he waited at a Westchester County bar to meet Sam, as previously arranged, but Sam did not arrive. Kaufman called the house of Sam's mother in Purchase, N.Y., about 20 miles south of Yorktown, where Sam had been staying while preparing a Manhattan apartment for use when he started his new job next month. There was no answer. Day by day, these events followed...
...knew where my damn analyst was," he wailed. "Where do they go every August?" The answer, of course, is that they go on vacation. Some psychiatrists say they choose August because Freud did, though others debunk that notion as too Freudian. "An August vacation," explains Dr. William Frosch, a Manhattan psychiatrist, "is built into your training from the start. Your analyst took August and so you start doing so yourself...
...with the mythology of the godlike physician, the fantasy that doctors are monklike hairshirt types who never need a vacation." Moreover, because a patient tends to establish a close parent-child relationship with his psychiatrist, he feels abandoned during his absence. Vacationing on Cape Cod last August, Manhattan Psychoanalyst David Mann received several phone calls from patients who had read about the novel Jaws. "They asked if I have been eaten by a shark. What they really wanted to know was whether I was coming back for their therapy sessions...
Other patients have rushed to the altar, returned to heavy drinking or started gambling wildly. One Manhattan analyst recalls that over the years, three of his patients have unexpectedly become pregnant in August. Admits the doctor: "I am the fantasy father of all three...