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Specialists disagree about the causes of agoraphobia. A few doctors think it may stem from hormonal imbalances or overuse of stimulants, even coffee, but most experts are sure the affliction is a psychic one. Freudians consider it a neurotic symptom. Many psychologists see it simply as learned behavior: a patient has an initial breakdown so traumatic that it leaves him in a constant state of anxiety over a possible recurrence, thus producing the phobia...
Some professional prognosticators such as Danny Sheridan claim psychic powers. A novel technique of predicting by using biorhythms is also gaining a foothold in the trade, but Matthews's advise to would-be soothsayers is: "You have to have a good math background, know what statistical methods are available and how to use them, and a high-speed computer." ZBIKOWSKI The Top Ten MATTHEWS 1. Texas 1. Texas 2. Ohio St. 2. Ohio St. 3. Notre Dame 3. Notre Dame 4. Kentucky 4. Kentucky 5. Penn St. 5. Michigan 6. Nebraska 6. Pittsburgh 8. Alabama 7. Alabama 9. Oklahoma...
...playgoer been dazzled and dominated by a set rather than merely giving it the perfunctory opening-curtain applause? Edward Corey's set for Dracula at Manhattan's Martin Beck Theater is an eye-blinker. Broody, vaulting, magisterial, colored in shades of bleakest gray, it is a psychic tomb out of Edgar Allan Poe's haunted imagination. In perfect aesthetic juxtaposition, Gorey's costumes are funereal black, with ruby splashes in a proffered drink or a crimsoned pendant to accent the theme of Dracula's blood lust...
This reduction of ideas to platitudes, this perpetual emotional filibuster relying on psychic sensationalism and insights as adaptable and obvious as children's blocks that are numbered and lettered, is depicted, on the whole, with wryness. The warning lies beneath the mockery...
...identified with some positive ide al. In the beginning, we stood for liberty, even before we implemented liberty in our own society. Similarly, today, the identification of the U.S. with some thing more than just consumption is essential to our own wellbeing, to our own psychic stability and to the American role in the world. But we shouldn't be strident. Our policy should be more an affirmation than a blunt or sharp instrument of political warfare...