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Jung notes that nothing is a clearer symbol of peevish authority than a customs inspector-but that is only half the dream. Readers who respect the power of a pun are free to ponder which of his customs Jung didn't want Freud inspecting, and as far as Jung's critics are concerned, that is the heart of the matter. For how else account for a man whose method in science was often to find enlightenment in a dream, pronounce the dream a hypothesis, then dream it ten times over again, and announce the establishment of a theory...
...into President Kennedy's thinking came "on the highest authority." The Baltimore Sun cited Kennedy "friends." The Philadelphia Bulletin listed "those who should know," "those who know the President best," "closest associates," "those in whom he has confidence," and "intimates." But the New York Times's Elder Pun dit Arthur Krock, who has not recently been in Palm Beach, felt free to insist that it was the President him self who had been doing the talking. At any rate, the President's thinking ranged over a variety of subjects, from tax prospects to reflections on Cuba...
With two new Houses in the planning stage, the College's commitment to its residential network seems firmly established. And yet educational and cultural policy is frequently initiated with little apparent concern for the Houses. A most dramatic example, if the pun is excusable, lies in the Loeb Drama Center, which has permanently thinned the ranks of House theater groups...
...reputation as a wit, and he tried hard to live up to it at the press conference. After Goldberg made a speech saying he was "delighted beyond words" that Wirtz was going to succeed him, Wirtz opened up his own little speech with: "If it was a pun the Secretary was intending, and he was saying he was delighted beyond Wirtz, he was wrong." At one point, Wirtz quoted from Tennyson's Idylls of the King...
...Pun Chiu-yin, city editor, Sing Tao Evening News, Hong Kong. He studied economics at Canton University, has been on the Sing Tao staff since 1946. He plans to study history and philosophy...