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Neurosis, to Freud, results from unsuccessful attempt by the personality to achieve harmony among id, ego and superego, and this failure in turn results from arrest of development at an immature stage. Commonest cause of emotional disharmony: failure to resolve Oedipal feelings. Example: many girls who profess to seek marriage actually avoid it because the prospect activates the threat of unacceptable emotions which are fixated to their fathers...
Many Britons, high and low, profess to be bored stiff these days with talk of Princess Margaret, but when Margaret's name is mentioned, her sister's subjects prick up their ears. Last week, sparked by the fact that the Roman Catholic Duke of Norfolk, Premier Peer and hereditary Earl Marshal of England, went to call on the Pope for the first time in 18 years, rumors were once again rife about Princess Margaret. Flimsily constructed on the supposition that high-ranking Norfolk's papal audience could only concern an equally high-ranking cause, the rumors took...
...Soviet rulers profess to regard these developments as dangerous. They advocate-for others-what they call 'neutrality.' By this they mean that each nation should have the weakness which is inevitable when each depends on itself alone. But the Soviet rulers practice, for themselves, something very different from what they thus preach to others. They have forged a vast domain. The Soviet bloc represents an amalgamation of about 900 million people normally constituting more than 20 distinct national groups. [In view of this] the United States does not believe in practicing neutrality. Barring exceptional cases, neutrality today...
From these two emotions comes the widespread confidence that Eisenhower has inspired. Critics in his own party, diehard Democrats, French neutralists, oppose him but do not think he will do anything very wrong. (Even the Communists, going along, profess to trust him more than other American leaders.) Popular affection for Eisenhower focused attention on the content of that word "mild." How good were his hopes of recovery? As far as could be learned from naturally cautious medical bulletins, read in the light of what medical specialists know about such cases, the chances were good that he would have many happy...
...personality admen and Wall Streeters, lies the land of Dinner Party. It is rich farmland which no one farms, populated by Men who have Made their Mark and their families. Their wives scorn elegance in favor of unobtrusive Rightness, are kindly amused by the Locals, find butlers ostentatious and profess a terror of intellectuals. In their houses, their clothes and their mores, they achieve enormous comfort, spending a lot of money wherever it does not show...