Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novelist needs to have been around. Geographically, at least, George Tabori has the qualifications. He was born in Hungary, became a British subject after many travels, now lives in France. His best book was a political novel about Italy (Companions of the Left Hand) ; another was a psycho-thriller, set in Egypt (Original Sin), which was chiefly notable for the longest dust storm in modern 1't-erature. This time, Tabori has written a perspiring little novel about Arabia, and garnished it with murder, intrigue and rebellion...
Another step toward aiding the partially deaf to hear perfectly has been taken in the Psycho-Acoustical Laboratory of the University in the basement of Memorial Hall...
...creation of dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his inventions of the wheel and arch." A modest opening, for a work that proclaims: "The hidden source of all psycho-somatic ills and human aberration has been discovered and skills have been developed for their invariable cure...
Twenty hours of dianetic therapy "invariably" produces a "release," freedom from any and all psycho-somatic disorders--"a state superior to any produced by several years of psycho-analysis, since the release will not relapse." In the course of the treatment, an "auditor" (any layman who has purchased and read the textbook) induces a "dianetic reverie" in the patient, and, by suggestion and association, helps him "return" along his "time-tract" to relive his engrams. After recalling several times the speeches that have boxed him, the patient is free of their influence...
Obsessed by a strange type of affection, the omniscient Francis gives information about Japanese troops to second lieutenant O'Connor. When O'Connor becomes a hero and tries to share the credit with Francis, the lieutenant is gently hustled off to the psycho ward to weave baskets. A major-general, a colonel, some war correspondents and a large part of the audience also become candidates for the basket-weaving ward during the course of the picture...