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Sonic Support. One of the psycho-metricist's more profound discoveries is that whenever a U.S. President has attempted to reassure businessmen about the state of the economy, he has succeeded only in impairing business confidence. To counter this "Inverse Insecurity Factor," as he calls it, McLandress devised the subliminal Sonic Support Apparatus Mark II, a miniaturized tape recorder designed to reassure the businessman by playing back the speeches of some hero figure to whom he turns mentally for inspiration in moments of insecurity. Among other "Sustaining Presences," the doctor found that Barry Goldwater, the Hoovers (J. Edgar...
Viewers who resist change can find something familiar in ABC's Breaking Point, the season's new addition to the psycho ward. Following the tried Kil-casey formula, there's a young, straight-talking psychiatrist and an old, knowing psychiatrist. There is also a slosh of psychiatric midden. How long will TV go on mistaking mental upset for high drama...
...race has been involved in folly for a very long time. . . . While I don't blame capitalism for having caused vices, I do condemn if for not having stopped them. . . . Think of the thousands of people standing in rows right now, collecting tolls. I tell you it's a psycho world. And the whole thing is going on for the classical reasons laid down by Mr. Marx. You've got to have money to get into the toilets in this country...
Mirror is the key word. The Balcony takes place in a house of illusion (and ill-fame) devoted to psycho-sexual masquerades...
Look, Two Hands. Last season. Thorn was back in school, determined to get a grip on himself. Rival fans called him "Psycho" and "Bugs," but Rod refused to be rattled. "No more hysterics," he says. "No more punching the lockers. If I had a bad night-well, I just had a bad night." Thorn piled up 688 points, sparked the Mountaineers to a 24-6 season and a berth in the N.C.A.A. playoffs...