Word: psyching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...Your Essay on the pop-psych movement seemed very impressive [Oct. 7]. Your criticism of the "movement" itself is justified, but you've got to admit that their hearts are in the right places. As in anything of this sort, one may go to extremes, such as "psycholumnists" and the folks who think that after a 45-minute psychological program, they are fully capable of couching their neighbors and giving them sound advice as to how they may cope with their personal and social problems...
...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...
...Your Essay on Pop-Psych [Oct. 7] bristles with thinly veiled snobbery. "Pop-psych" is one of the few esoteric studies that have ever reached "the mass" intact; the popularity of pop-psych indicates a widespread concern among human beings. The very fact that psychology has some relevance outside of academia seems to make it untouchable in the eyes of your essayist; but at least he kept it at exactly two pages...