Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...influence on psychiatry is resisted; in other walks of life it is omnipresent but hidden. Says a German-Jewish sociologist: "Naziism and anti-Freudianism have the same deep roots in the German people. Why, if they accepted Freud, they would have to stop beating their children." In Switzerland the Calvinist conscience stands in adamant resistance to Freud. In France le Freudisme was little more than an intellectual fad between world wars, but took a spurt when it was reimported in 1945, along with jive and chewing gum from the U.S. The spurt has died; so, almost, has an offshoot psychanalyse...
...Switzerland...
...Switzerland, where the estimated cost of living is $120 a month, including tuition, universities are mainly occupied with giving summer language courses in the quatro-lingual state. The universities of Geneva, Lausanne, and Neuchatel teach in French. The canton schools of St. Gallen, Winterthur, and Chur offer German language courses. In southern Switzerland at Bellinzona, the school gives Italian instruction...
...government of Premier Ichiro Hatoyama pushed through Japan's Lower House, by a vote of 239 to 139, a bill establishing an agency to prepare changes in the constitution along some recommended lines: ¶ Abandonment of MacArthur's proud clause proscribing war (intended to make Japan the "Switzerland of Asia") to permit Japanese rearming, with safeguards against return of the old military clique. ¶ An upgrading of the Emperor from the purely honorary position ("symbol of the state") he now holds to a position somewhere below the divinity ("sacred and inviolable") he once enjoyed. ¶ A partial return...
Armstrong Circle Theater created some excitement with Five Who Shook the Mighty, a sympathetic rendering of last year's capture of the Red Rumanian legation in Bern. Switzerland, by a band of anti-Communist exiles. Although taking considerable dramatic license with the facts (e.g., the Red charge d'affaires, played by Gregory Morton, is shown as a captive, but actually escaped), the play had far more realism and bite than the usual run of TV's anti-Communist dramas. Climax! failed with its version of Katherine Anne Porter's 1939 novel. Pale Horse, Pale Rider...