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...executives really expect wives to conform to any stereo. typed image. Said Joseph E. Adams, vice president of White Motor Co.: "Consider the nation's top executives. How many of them would have been hired if wives had been a factor in the selection? Some men need a psychiatrist at home who will listen to their problems. Others need frivolous wives to distract them. Some need wives who are prominent in civic activities, some not. You can't type a wife...
...shook his fist at the bloated capitalist. In the '40s the man of freedom locked wills with the totalitarian zealot. In the '50s the basic confrontation - which all along has preoccupied writers, including W. H. Auden, Graham Greene. T. S. Eliot-may well be that of the psychiatrist and the man of God. Germany's Friedrich Deich. 49, is not professionally up to the literary company his idea keeps, but his loose-jointed, didactic first novel does trace the conflict back to its origins-the war of Science...
Beyond Reason. The man of science, Psychiatrist Robert Vossmenge, and the man of God, Pastor Kurt Degenbrück, are both attached to a mental clinic in pre-Hitler Germany. Their cases have the garish intimacy of tabloid headlines-an old woman who believes her son is being tortured in the basement, a teen-age boy who shoots and kills his brother "just to see what it felt like." These vignettes, complete and unrelated stories in themselves, are used much like algebraic problems by Novelist Deich to set the doctor and the pastor puzzling over the cube roots of free...
...Hitler's war blows the friendly enemies apart. When the two men meet just before war's end, both are less doctrinaire, though the pastor has been clapped into prison for calling Hitler the Antichrist. Convinced that postwar Germany will most need men like the pastor, the psychiatrist lays down his life so that the pastor may live. In humility, the pastor tacitly acknowledges this sacrifice as the act of a greater Christian than himself...
...inhabitants of the tight little island, located in the Outer Hebrides 100 miles from the English mainland and "To the West, there is nothing--but America," would agree with Harry Stack Sullivan, famous American psychiatrist. Sullivan once said about alcohol, "I do not see how mankind could exist without this most marvelous of chemical compounds." One native echoes him, "It is a well-known medical fact that some men are born two drinks below normal...