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...there is a fracas in the bull ring, and the boy with the Davy Crockett hat touches the still-warm hide of the bull. It is the aptest symbol for what is wrong with this consistently intelligent but overly symbolized novel - still warm but, by the narrowest of margins, dead...
...control of Congress switched back and forth by the narrowest of margins over the last decade, political managers turned increasingly to the study of state and district elections as a possible key to national hopes. One of those who pored over the state election ledgers was James Finnegan of Pennsylvania, onetime accounting student, now Adlai Stevenson's campaign manager. The result of Finnegan's studies: a Democratic campaign strategy that has been dubbed "Operation Reverse Coattails...
With Gum & Jive. If measured by the narrowest gauge, Freud today is a prophet with little honor in his own country. Among Vienna's 65 psychiatrists, 14 are Freudians (including six who practice psychoanalysis); Adler's adherents number four, and Jung's two. In Germany Freud's influence on psychiatry is resisted; in other walks of life it is omnipresent but hidden. Says a German-Jewish sociologist: "Naziism and anti-Freudianism have the same deep roots in the German people. Why, if they accepted Freud, they would have to stop beating their children." In Switzerland...
Closest competition came from Long Island's Carol Heiss, 16. Blonde pony tail flying, she missed out by the narrowest of margins in the rigid requirements of school figures. "We call her the bridesmaid," said Carol's disappointed mother. "Always second to Tenley...
...sideswipes A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, who last summer took full-page ads in six Manhattan dailies to exhort against modern art and supine art critics (TIME, June 20). Hartford, he complains, "was asking that art define truth rather than express it-and then defining it himself in the narrowest terms . . . To demand of art a specific 'moral answer' is just as unreasonable as to insist, as some formalist critics do, that the artist have no morals at all, that he create in a vacuum...