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...shudder to hear how Billy Graham "expounded the sinfulness of man . . . with the words, 'You are guilty ! You are guilty ! You are guilty ! . . . God looks at you . . . with his magnifying glass and sees your faults . . .' " As a psychotherapist, I spend most of my time attempting to remove from the backs of patients the great weight of guilt most of them have about expressing their genuine human nature. Men like Billy Graham degrade humanity by indicting man for simply being human, and, indirectly, help keep our mental hospitals full...
...frankly admitted that the doctor had a point. When he was playing for the Detroit Lions, recalled Quarterback Tom Dublinski, who later switched to the Toronto Argonauts, he once took a pill that pepped him up too much. "It hopped me up to high heaven," said Dublinski with a shudder. "That's no good-a quarterback has to be steady...
When disaster causes the familiar ground to shudder beneath the feet of a child, a neurotic is sometimes born, or a writer, and often both. Mary McCarthy became a writer. Now 44 and looking down at the fallen arches of the years, Novelist-Essayist McCarthy has told some true tales about herself which on other lips might be mistaken for nostalgic prattle. The wary reader might also be scared by the admission that some of these stories have appeared in The New Yorker-which specializes in such stuff to the point where its pages are as snarled up with...
...Yale: and the shudder...
...Theodore Green and Harry Byrd. How did Humphrey get there? You will remember him for his floor fight at the 1948 Democratic convention (in defiance of agreements among party leaders) to get a firm civil rights plank in the platform. He has since learned to compromise. Lest you shudder (White feels that a Senator must "accommodate" to be effective), it should be noted that this compromise may have considerably speeded up the chances of some civil rights laws...