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Dark legends of hypnotic spells are as old as sorcerers. Yet today, many reputable psychologists argue that hypnotism is a powerful and useful tool for probing the inner mysteries of man's mind. Dentists use hypnotism as an anaesthetic, and psychologists profess to cure everything from smoking to homosexuality by putting their subjects in a trance. But what is hypnosis...
...protection. He has the faith of a reformer that the country can solve these difficulties within the tradition if only it can summon up the will−roll up its sleeves and do it: "Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess...
...American youth. Nicholls told me that "one girl wrote in that it was a real copout" when he'd done a pimple commercial on television. I asked him how he felt. "Being here is copping out. Getting a paycheck every week is copping out if you want to profess the life that we profess onstage...
...many people in Hair profess that life style...
...cool, calculating charm of an accomplished womanizer. The woman he now wants, Mrs. Sullen (Maggie Smith), has had but one melancholy tutor: her husband. He is an alcoholic brute who keeps her in the country when her only heaven is London. As the chase quickens, the ladies profess virtues which they could scarcely wish to possess. The feint and parry of amour ends well, with the lout of a husband paid off for a divorce and the pairs of lovers united. One does not regret the convention that they will live happily ever after, but one does regret somewhat...