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...central question posed by The Good Apprentice is whether Edward can be saved from his paralyzing depression. Harry gives him a pep talk: "You are having a nervous breakdown, you are ill, it is an illness, like pneumonia or scarlet fever, you will receive help, you will be given treatment . . . you will recover." McCaskerville has reservations about his profession, calling psychoanalysis a "mishmash of scientific ideas and mythology and literature and isolated facts and sympathy and intuition and love and appetite for power." Nevertheless, he tries to help Edward: "I'm not telling you not to feel remorse and guilt...
...about her life. "First of all, she doesn't want to get married, doesn't want to husband-steal," Richardson explains. "There are other things she wants to do. She feels in charge of her life. The stigma is not gone, but it's fading. She's not the scarlet woman anymore. Call her the pink woman or something like that...
When film fans dream of old movies, they dream in black and white. They think of Lillian Gish's Scarlet Letter emblazoned in gray. For them the true colors of Red River, Blue Denim, Golden Boy and Green Pastures are those shades of pearl and ivory determined by the films' cinematographers. And when Bogie says, "Here's looking at you, kid," movie lovers gaze at Ingrid Bergman in glorious monochrome...
Despite their physical ordeal, many AIDS sufferers say that the worst aspect of their condition is the sense of isolation and personal rejection. "It's like wearing the scarlet letter," says a 35-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer who was forced out of a job at a top Texas law firm. "When people do find out," he says, "there is a shading, a variation in how they treat me. There is less familiarity. A lot less." Sometimes the changes are far from subtle, according to Mark Senak, a lawyer at the Gay Men's Health Crisis, a volunteer organization that...
...fall from power. He sees Hitler as a poor administrator and a bad judge of human nature. It follows that his Volk hero is surrounded by "simpletons, mindless scum, and flatterers," most notably Himmler, Goebbels, and Göring, who greets Wagener in a red dressing gown and scarlet slippers with turned-up toes. To anyone familiar with office politics, this is a calculated rudeness. Wagener does not seem to get the message. Ever the intellectual snob, he sees Göring as a mental patient rather than a shrewd realist who knows the difference between theatricality and self-delusion...