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...productions somehow always smack of the middle-aged sentimentality of Sigmund Romberg, and like Romberg they go along in the same pleasant way, making some people happy and others disgusted. "The Clock," it will be said, is heart-warming--and it is, depending on one's state of mind...
...acting is natural; its humor (James Gleason, Keenan Wynn) is appealing; it does not run to absurd lengths. Yet "The Clock" drags, mostly because it is too full of little climaxes and its big climax is poorly timed. What's worse, Leo roars too loudly and the MGM-Sigmund Romberg-Reader's Digest flavor is too strong. And millions of people will love...
...essentially very sinister; lawyers (notably Cruikshank-like John Carradine) are crooks who will not only not stop at murder but prefer to begin with it; gangsters (William Bendix et al.) hold stockholders' meetings as punctiliously as any other big businessmen; the high priest of the mysteries exhumed by Sigmund Freud is a wild-eyed goon (Jerry Colonna) who can't stop slapping his own face. There is also a capitalist (Robert Benchley) who appears at his daughter's wedding with a neon endorsement of his product-PARKER'S PASTE KILLS RATS-glowing on the back...
...more profoundly affected modern thought than the late, great Sigmund Freud. Yet few close-ups of Freud exist. The father of psychoanalysis has usually been seen from afar. Last week appeared a warmly intimate portrait of Freud: Master and Friend (Harvard University Press; $2.50), by Dr. Hanns Sachs of Harvard, a survivor of the early group of six close disciples...
...late Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, began his professional life as a hypnotist. Failing to cure neurotics by hypnotic suggestion, he gave it up to develop his analytic technique. Some Freudians have recently begun to swing back to certain possibilities of hypnosis -among other things - as a shortcut to cure...