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...Princess. Her ride was flawless, but an embarrassed Indian officer was thrown. Said the First Lady of her horse at ride's end: "She jumped like a bird." Jackie fed pandas and an elephant, watched a cobra rise to music, saw a battle between a mongoose and a snake. Among the many gifts she received were a pair of tiger cubs that were first named Ev and Charlie (for G.O.P. Congressional Leaders Everett Dirksen and Charles Halleck)-until one turned out to be a female. It was all very exotic, exciting, and a bit exhausting for anyone-even though...
...daughter, who has recently been electroshocked out of schizophrenia, is trying to face the difficult facts of her life: a devoted husband whom she does not love, a selfish father whose love she needs but cannot have, an ego that stands fascinated, like a rabbit, before the great snake of the unconscious...
...young woman watches her father sacrifice his son's happiness to his artistic ambitions, as once he sacrificed hers, she is plunged into depression-the snake swallows her up. She hears voices that force her to give the lonely, unhappy boy the love his father refuses. She also gives him the lust she cannot give her husband. When the seizure passes, she sees that the experience has almost destroyed her brother; appalled by the power of darkness in her life, she longs for salvation. Voices lure her into "another world," promising that there she will...
...second error which requires discussion is the implication that the value of an activity is in some way proportional to the amount of criticism which it draws. It is true that Freud was criticized. It is equally true that criticism was levelled at phrenology, astrology, diabetics, snake-worshipping and the Flat Earth Society. As Mr. Greenwald himself points out, the proof of the pudding is in the data. Quantity of criticism is no guide...
...these adornments to offset his central theme and prove that life has at least two sides, Author Rosten has ended up with a novel that suffers from cute appendicitis. Captain Newman, M.D. is really two books, intertwined like medicine's caduceus, at its best considerably better than The Snake Pit, at its worst a fun-house chortle hollowly echoing See Here, Private Hargrove...