Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ONLY A QUACK offers a quick, painless fix for a serious illness. And although we may be tempted at times to seek such expedient treatment, sound judgement tells us to forebear...
...Psychotherapists are in a position to serve as pleasure merchants with an almost endless assortment of direct satisfactions for their clientele," he writes. "None of these pleasures have anything to do with the sane satisfactions of sound psychotherapy." The right way to do psychotherapy, he says, is to look at the nightmares: "If you look away and pretend they are not there, you will feel better for a while, but you'll pay the price...
Call me a misogynist, but I think "Minutepeople" would sound just a little bit stupid. Not to mention the fact that there probably weren't too many rifle-toting females in the Lexington militia...
...Babenco (adapting Manuel Puig's novel) attempts more than a sensitive study about the burgeoning of one off-beat friendship. He sets his sights on the giddy interplay between fantasy and fact, with the premise that escapism is indispensable to a psychologically sound existence...
...Very Impressive Writers he knows about. He refers to Proust and Joyce. He lists Conrad, Burgess, Bashevis Singer and Balzac as writers he's keen on, as well as P.G. Wodehouse and H.E. Bates: "I read fairly heavy stuff. To mention all the authors might make me sound pretentious...