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...been against the war the whole time," said Minna M. Jarvenpaa '92. "I think the U.S. should cease all operations and begin to negotiate with Iraq...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk and Ira E. Stoll, S | Title: At Breakfast, Students Are Upbeat, Cautious | 2/15/1991 | See Source »

...soup tureen. Then came a walk to restore the circulation, perhaps to deliver proofs or buy cigars. Consultations were at three, and after that, he saw more analytic patients, often until nine in the evening. Then came supper, sometimes a short game of cards with his sister-in-law Minna, or a walk with his wife or one of his daughters, often ending up at a cafe, where they could read the papers or, in the summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Piece of the True Couch FREUD: A LIFE FOR OUR TIME | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

...novel finds Corde far from home, stuck in a small apartment in Bucharest, waiting for his mother-in-law to die. Meditatively, he licks the wounds of recent Chicago battles--battles which rage unabated, awaiting his return. While ineptly ministering to the miseries of his emigre/astronomer ("Palomar calibre") wife. Minna (perhaps Bellow is losing his old feisttness: this protagonist is happily married, with no Renatas or Ramonas to scheme over him, no vicious wives trying to castrate him), and sucking down plum brandy. Corde explores the smoldering wreckage of life in Chicago, his and the city...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Bellow and the Burden of His Past | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...waiting for his mother-in-law to die in a state hospital and mulling over the retreat of "personal humanity" before "the worldwide process of consolidation." The woman was an eminent psychiatrist and former Minister of Health whose humanism was incompatible with the Communist regime. Corde's wife Minna is an astrophysicist who defected to the U.S. and must now beg a vindictive bureaucracy for permission to see her failing mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Truth and Consequences | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

Evidence of psychological damage is still sketchy, and most survivors' children seem to be functioning well. Says Minna Davis, co-founder of Chicago's Association for the Children of Holocaust Survivors: "There is nothing serious enough to land us on a psychiatrist's couch, but we do walk around with part of us missing." In many survivors' homes, ominous silences and gaps in the family history created a somber approach to childhood and an aura of tragedy about adult lives. Says one survivor's daughter, who is now raising her own family in Naperville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Trauma Goes On | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

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