Word: manne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...draw an exact line between an alcoholic and a severely troubled drinker. "The issue," he states, "is why some people apparently waste their lives on alcohol while others don't. What's the 'glue' that binds some people to their alcohol problems?" Adds Marty Mann, the woman who founded the National Council on Alcoholism: "No one has ever found the way to turn a nonalcoholic into an alcoholic. There is a basic difference in people...
...skipped even the social-drinker phase. They passed from total abstinence directly into chronic alcoholism. This may be due in some cases to a biochemical imbalance of some sort. "There have been people I call 'instant alcoholics' who are in trouble the minute they drink," says Marty Mann...
Easy Cop-Out. Even A.A. requires the alcoholic's commitment to change. Many workers in the field are now trying to downplay the idea-espoused by Marty Mann 30 years ago-that alcoholism is a disease. The label may make problem drinking worse by absolving the drinker of responsibility. An overemphasis on the psychological causes of alcoholism can have a similar effect. "A search for the roots of the personal problems that cause a person to become addicted can become an easy cop-out," says Psychiatrist Robert Moore. "The classic therapy game becomes a technique of protecting his alcoholism...
...useful. His words are ones we use and over-use--"ego," "repression"--for want of better ones. This is not good enough for someone whose whole business is the delicate shading of every sense and tone. Such horrors as the scene in The Magic Mountain when Thomas Mann has his heroine ask to borrow the hero's pencil are ample warning that novels ought to be sources for the psychologist and not vice versa. For Nabokov, art is more fundamental than sex. And even Freud, unlike many Freudians, realized, 1) that sex isn't the only form...
...clips are endlessly fascinating, the recollections are worth the entire price of production. Here, for instance, is Howard Hawks recalling a hunting trip on which an actor and an author met for the first time. The actor asked who the good living writers were. The author answered, "Thomas Mann, Willa Gather, John Dos Passes, Ernest Hemingway and myself." The actor said, "You write, Mr. Faulkner?" And the author replied, "Yes. What do you do, Mr. Gable...