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...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...
...inherit. She is the heiress to a sanitary-napkin fortune, and to get her money one of the boys must marry her. Although Nicky has eyes for the girl, he is already wed. This leaves Oscar, who consents out of deference both to the caper and to the Mann Act. The heiress...
Writers also seem to have an inclination to assume a sense of mission (to preserve the national culture against totalitarian rule). Thomas Mann in his California villa remained the embodiment of German culture, resisting the barbarism of Goebbels and Co. Solzhenitsyn, though not published in Russia in the last ten years before he was expelled, still had a sense of speaking for the people, representing the national values against the neo-Stalinist pragmatism of Brezhnev. Similarly Czech writers, particularly Kundera. Vaculik and Kohout sensed the necessity to remain in their country. In touch with their people, even in this period...
...Thomas Mann and His "Good Scores"; a lecture by Michael Steinberg; Quincy Dining Room...
...Ulrike Meinhof. They also wanted authorities to annul all verdicts handed down against demonstrators who had violently protested the death by prison hunger strike of a gang member named Holger Meins. One result of the violence was the murder of West Berlin Supreme Court President Giinter von Drenk-mann. It is suspected that he was killed in retaliation for Meins' death (TIME, Dec. 9). Unless the six prisoners were released, provided with $52,200 in cash and flown out of West Berlin on a special jet, Lorenz, according to the note, would be executed...