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...talking cure," as an early analysand called it, had to think of themselves as neutral observers of clinical evidence. Software like the id, the ego and the Oedipus complex became hardware; schools of thought grew into academies of dogma; schisms appeared; colleagues turned into cultists; and Wilhelm Reich, confusing metaphor with reality, saw space invaders...
Living with the German presence, the people of Paris faced problems more immediate than Hitler's plans for the 1000-year Reich. As a civic entity and as individuals, they had to make choices--between collaboration and resistance, between survival and honor. These choices, along with the grander cultural confrontation between German and Frenchman, are the subjects of Paris in the Third Reich, by David Pryce-Jones. The book combines a selective narrative history of the years 1940-1944, a section of interviews with characters who saw the occupation from widely differing perspectives, and a collection of photographs of everyday...
...could better spend it on this book than on pizza and beer. The stories Pryce-Jones and Rand reproduce are clearly valuable. Someone could learn something from them at a boring cocktail party. But the same has been told better by others, and ultimately, Paris in the Third Reich bears the flaw of its genre; it sacrifices unity for the specific...
...price per house and the promise of "sweat equity," private citizens are restoring such historic neighborhoods as Ridgeley's Delight, Otterbein, Barre Circle, Stirling Street, Durham Street and Washington Hill. There is a similar program of "shopsteading," whereby businessmen are encouraged to salvage old stores. Notes City Planner Larry Reich: "Nothing happens here by itself. People have to make it happen...
...Gardner, now 66, fired a powerful salvo, Fads and Fallacies. The author took aim at the orgone-box sex theories of Wilhelm Reich, spoofed the father of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard...