Word: sigmund
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...training room, he could be called an athletic Sigmund Freud. He listens with an attentive ear and reaches careful prognoses with the person in mind--and when needed he has a temper that disarms most hypochondriacs and malingerers...
...longer in use). Some customers still grump at the amusements. "It's like Disneyland," said a restaurant manager from Covina, Calif. But most are enthusiastic. "It's just like when I was a kid," said Robert Locke, a retired steamfitter from Long Beach, Calif. Said Mrs. Sigmund Schuster, wife of a Cleveland clothier: "For me, it only adds to the excitement of gambling." As she spoke, a nearby slot machine struck up a Sousa march, which is the way the casino's slots announce a jackpot...
...paints depict pulpy male nudes who couple lewdly on beds or sit like withdrawn junkies in cell-like boxes. The current show also includes many grotesquely distorted portraits of his friends, among them George Dyer, his studio assistant, Isabel Rawsthorne, wife of Composer Alan Rawsthorne, and Painter Lucian Freud, Sigmund's grandson. On one canvas, a hypodermic syringe rises from what looks like a well-beaten body, while in a corner of another a bird that has been plucked stark naked screeches desperately on his perch...
Most Americans are not even sure what they want the police to police. "We ask our officers to be a combination of Bat Masterson, Sherlock Holmes, Sigmund Freud, King Solomon, Hercules and Diogenes," says Rocky Pomerance, Miami Beach police chief. Indeed, the U.S. often seems lucky to have any cops at all. Plato envisaged the policeman's lofty forebear as the "guardian" of law and order and placed him near the very top of his ideal society, endowing him with special wisdom, strength and patience. The U.S. has put its guardians near the bottom. In most places...
HENZE: DER JUNGE LORD (Deutsche-Grammophon; 3 LPs). While most aficionados consider Violetta, or Sigmund, or even the sadistic Turandot a familiar acquaintance, or even a friend, few can cozy up to Hans Werner Henze's heroes and heroines. In The Young Lord, the hero turns out to be an extremely well-trained monkey, and the moral of the tale seems to be that the modern world is so fad-conscious that people will imitate practically anyone with a social passport, even if he is an ape in disguise. It might sound like comedy, but the work is filled...