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Stanton E. Samenow, a clinical psychologist at Saint Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, also spoke yesterday at the opening session and discussed research which supports Szasz's views...
When Mark Twain visited Vassar in 1885, he had, he said, a "ghastly" time and thought the college president "a sour old saint." But now, whether Twain's ghost likes it or not, he is at Vassar to stay. The college has joyously accepted from the daughter of Twain's grandniece Jean Webster McKinney, '01, a collection of the 19th century humorist's letters and notebooks. They contain their share of Twainian "stretchers," or exaggerations. From the gold camps of the West he wrote: "I have had my whiskers and moustaches as full of alkali dust...
...qualities. It is a mixed picture though. "People who have an explanation for Al's behavior these days tend to see him either as an unregenerate old villain or a spotless martyr," he writes. "But I'm in a curious position and don't have to see him as saint or sinner...
...cloaks, trains, panels, hoods, furbelows and twiddlybits, the great fashion houses emerge, year after year, as masters of trompe l'oeil. Otherwise, monitoring these collections would be like sitting through Aida for the 42nd time. As Mrs. Pierre Schlumberger, of the French oil-rich, noted before seeing the Saint Laurent collection in the laurel-bedecked ballroom of the Crillon, "We can't really expect them to keep coming up with something new twice a year, though that is what we are demanding." What Paris offered last week was manic vacillation...
...YVES SAINT LAURENT came on with a romantic version of his tough-chic man-tailored pantsuits, followed by a new rendering of his 1976 peasant-Gypsy-Spanish-Russian look. This time he used delicate Indian prints, floral patterns and filmy mousselines-inspired, it was said, by Renoir (who was not exactly inspired by peasants). Y.S.L. remained the superstar...