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Amrein and Dr. Sigmund A.Weitzman, also of MGH, were part of a research team of physicians that tested the drugs' effect on 70 patients over the past two years. Amrein reported a 20-30 percent success rate when the drugs are used after radiation therapy. He said the success rate is about 75 percent when they are used in conjunction with surgery...
Glass returned at a time of remarkable artistic ferment (see box). In the late '60s Reich, a Juilliard classmate, had codified early minimalist theory in such works as It's Gonna Rain and Come Out. Wilson was staging The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud. Minimalist Sculptor Richard Serra (see ART), an acquaintance from Paris, was preparing a one-man exhibition in New York. Reich had already formed an ensemble, and he and Glass sometimes joined forces. A pair of 1969 concerts at the Whitney Museum of American Art attracted public and critical attention to the burgeoning phenomenon of minimalism...
...Culture of Narcissism. In that book as in this, he tries to explain modern life by generalizing from Freud's theories of personality to the condition of society as a whole. He argues that contemporary culture fosters narcissistic personalities. The discrepancy comes when Lasch, as a faithful son of Sigmund, attacks writers who do just what he is doing Criticizing Herbert Marcuse, a noted re-interpreter of psychoanalytic thought, Lasch claims that...
...WHEN SIGMUND FREUD initially began inquiring into the nature of the human psyche, contemporaries passed him off as a sexual crackpot. And while many psychologists today are still wary of reducing all behavior to id, ego and superego, most professionals in the field concede that repressed behavior is fundamental to a well-functioning society...
...galleys of his next book, The Great Thoughts, due out in April. Begun in 1960 after he finished his bestseller The Great Quotations, Thoughts is a compilation of highlights from the words and wisdom of the world's greatest thinkers. Tops in this cerebral hall of fame is Sigmund Freud, who gets 20 out of 750 pages, followed closely by Carl Jung and Alfred Adler. Any disgruntled illuminati who feel they were left out may yet turn up in Seldes' next book, tentatively titled Adventures with People: The Noted, the Notorious and the Three S.O.B.s...