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...their subject, and based on second-or third-hand information. Together, they framed a savage posthumous assault that depicts Thomas Woodrow Wilson as a Messianic but effeminate zealot hovering on the brink of insanity. It is all the more remarkable because it is not the work of some pop-psych practitioner but bears the name of the founder of psychoanalysis himself. On this showing, if not on others, Freud puts psychoanalysis in the category of myth and poetry rather than that of scientific examination...
Though, as tomorrow's historians, they may ultimately credit their elders with a certain degree of prowess in staving off thermonuclear war, many pop-psych their growing pains in terms of the atom. "We're the Bomb Babies," says Los Angeles City College Student Ronald Allison, 23. "We grew up with fallout in our milk." The hyperbole may sound sentimental, but because of the Bomb, some Now People reach their teens feeling that they are trying to compress a lifetime into...
BEAZLE: No one is just unhappy. Psych harder...
Bellow's lines are sometimes witty, always literate and frequently laced with Jewish humor, but one can never be sure whether he is spoofing the language of pop-psych or employing it. He is not earthy enough to be bawdy, so his scenes and situations register as leeringly risqué rather than forthrightly bold. Shelley Winters and Harry Towb do unerringly professional acting jobs, but Bellow has yet to learn that language is not the master of the stage but simply a fuse to ignite dramatic action...
...satire on "pop-psych" was an excellent one. One should be aware, however, that while the cocktail-party set is laughing, the professional world is engaged otherwise...