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The American cat of any age or gender enjoys semisacrosanct status approaching that of the holy cow in India. There are some 25 million pet felines in the U.S.; their care and feeding cost up to $1.8 billion a year, which is more than the defense budget of Brazil. Yet...
Never mind gin and tonic -well, perhaps a short one -and forget the return of baseball's prodigal sons. We are dealing here with primal matters, with a current in the national psyche far deeper and more powerful than our tropism toward corn on the cob and Japanese cars...
Daniel Yankelovich, a student of the American psyche and chairman of the polling firm of Yankelovich, Skelly & White, now offers a more benign view. In New Rules: Searching for Self-Fulfillment in a World Turned Upside Down (Random House; $15.95), he suggests that this social upheaval may turn out to...
DIED. Abram Kardiner, 89, American psychoanalyst who in 1930 co-founded the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, the first psychiatric training school in the U.S., and was one of the last persons living to have been analyzed by Sigmund Freud; in Easton, Conn. A leader in the "environmental" school of psychiatry...
Typically, Phelps flattens out the story of Scheherazade by leaving in the logic and removing the magic: Why should the heroine fall in love with the murderous king or beg for her life? Writes the author: "Many readers may well be disappointed with these meek and improbable endings." Bettelheim pays...