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Psycho. 1960 Hitchcock study of madness and mayhem in a run-down motel. Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh...
...LAST DECADE has not been the most normal of times. While ten years ago the Peace Corps, SNCC and the great idealistic causes diverted young graduates from the mainstream, as time went on the war diverted the mainstream itself. What the war inspired with its relentless mayhem, impervious to all protest was an emotion akin to traitorousness. And partisan reporters pushing de-mystification on all fronts multiplied that sensation...
...This is going to be a case of great import in school law." Frisoli said yesterday. He charged that the job of superintendent should not hinge on the political climate every two years when the new School Committee is elected. "The school system would just be mayhem if things see-sawed back and forth every two years; it takes time to initiate programs for the school?" he said...
After last year's decimation at the hands of the Crimson. Cozza is wary of the Restic system's potential for mayhem. "They put an awful lot of pressure on you." Cozza said. "They throw everything at you. You've just got to go with your basic defense and play the ball. If they're on and Crone's throwing we'll be in trouble. Last year they riddled us with Crone's passing...
Since Jones' essay, the psychoanalysis of chess has been increasingly preoccupied with sexual symbolism. Said Menninger about chess players: "Silently they are plotting (and attempting to execute) murderous campaigns of patricide, matricide, fratricide, regicide and mayhem." A great chess player, Manhattan's Reuben Fine, has popularized a psychology of chess studded with phallic symbols, spattered with anal-sadistic impulses and imbued with latent homosexuality. In successive rounds, Fine once defeated Botvinnik, Reshevsky, Euwe, Flohr and Alekhine, and drew with Capablanca. When Fine switched his major interest from chess to psychoanalysis, the result was a loss for chess...