Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearing aid that will work for all deaf or hard-of-hearing people without individual fittings was forecast yesterday by research workers in the University Psycho Acoustic Laboratory...
This report, according to S. Smith Stevens, director of the Psycho-Acoustic Lab, revolutionizes the study of hearing aids, for it attacks the "dogma that hearing aids, like eye glasses, must be fitted to the detailed idiosyncrasies of the individual impairment...
Gifted Hungarian-born George Tabori, whose Companions of the Left Hand was one of last year's most singular and striking novels (TIME, June 24, 1946), seems to have written this psycho-thriller with his left foot. A khamseen howls for days in Cairo, wearing tempers thin as the hot, gritty sand seeps through the doors and windows of the Pension Malika Farida. On the fifth morning of the storm, Adela Manasse, wife of the pension's proprietor, is found dead in her tub, naked and smiling a "kindly" smile...
...been relatively quiet on the Mem Hall scene since then. Most recent renovation has been the transformation of its basement into ultra-modern psychology and psycho-acoustic laboratories. Walking through the medieval transept and then down into the futuristic halls of science beneath is as startling as being transported from the Dark Ages into the World of Tomorrow. At last the Renaissance seems to have overtaken Memorial Hall...
...this is not what Marquand intended. Far from being any kind of satire, the film might convince those who have never been exposed to the local setting that Boston might do with a corps of psycho analysts. Would that it would that simple. Like the city he lived in, the original George Apley was a creature of deep conflicts and inner restlessness. Ronald Colman does no better than an imitation of any neighborhood's damn fool...