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THE NEUROTIC'S NOTEBOOK by Mignon McLaughlin. 96 pages. Bobbs-Merrill. $2.50.
It comes in a box. "The reader," explain the instructions, "is requested to shuffle these pages like a pack of cards. The order the pages then assume will orient X's life." But who will orient the reader? For the pages are unnumbered, and X himself is never referred...
Just when it was becoming fashionably sick, someone had to come along and remind everybody that sex can be fun. The contemporary five-foot shelf abounds in incest, lewd vagrancy, homosexual hanky-panky, reckless driving, and other suburban indelicacies. Such misdemeanors seem thoroughly neurotic compared to the plain if repetitive...
Folowing World War II, Moise said, Americans realized their vulnerability. He called the McCarthy era a "neurotic reaction" to this realization, but added that Americans now understand the need for intellectual flexibility. This understanding is a reason for the "genuine intellectual motivation" of present-day Americans.
∙ NEUROTIC. Some modern atheists are unquestionably neurotics - typically, the young idealist whose religious fervor turns into bitter anticlericalism after an unhappy experience in a seminary. Lepp has found that psychology can help cure such atheists of their emotional hostility toward religion, but will not affect their unbelief. "It is...