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Is the U.S. succumbing to angst? Not according to a British psychologist, who asserts, surprisingly, that Americans seem to handle stress and strain reasonably well. In his new book, Personality and National Character, Dr. Richard Lynn points out that, compared with the Japanese, Germans, Austrians and Italians, "Americans don'...
Happily, Valerie Eliot has written a clear and humane introduction, which pieces together the poet's life during the period, roughly 1916 to 1922, when The Waste Land was in preparation. What emerges is a portrait of the artist as the most scrupulous, harried and genteel academic dropout of...
DARTMOUTH AT HARVARD--Surprising as it may seem, Dartmouth is not its traditionally good self this fall. Dartmouth is neurotic about failure after close victories over Penn and Brown. A quick Crimson lead could create Big Green psychosis. Harvard will be anxious for revenge after its loss to Cornell, and...
The New York officials seemed to have been caught slightly more off-guard by the riot at Attica and were too engrossed in their efforts to restore order in the prison to give much speculation to the emotional motivation of the prisoners. To be sure, Commissioner Oswald and the negotiating...
Driving Death Wish. Hubbard believes that the typical skyjacker has two intense wishes: to fly and to flee. Sometimes he takes flying lessons in an unsuccessful effort to become a pilot. Sometimes he is "a wild parachutist." In any case, he has "a singular neurotic preoccupation with space, motion and...