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...Know Thyself. In Greensboro, N.C., Herman Lamm, serving a 15-year prison term for robbing a bank, appealed to have his case reopened on grounds of insanity, announced that he had worn a work shirt with his employer's name and address on it during the holdup, claimed that "this is not compatible to the action of a sane person who is about to rob a bank...
...Listen Pope: "Divided and rent asunder in its own life, the church itself speaks in broken accents and sometimes seems to add to the confusion of tongues. The nations of the world might understandably reply to the church's plea for international unity and peace: 'Physician, heal thyself.' " Nevertheless, the council mapped out a huge task: "We believe that Christianity in southeast Asia may well prove the pacemaker in international diplomacy in the next ten years...
...Heal Thyself. In all but work, Page practices the moderation that he preaches. Waking between 5 and 5:30, he makes his own breakfast and starts work at once. With no visitors or telephone calls to interrupt him he gets his best work done (writing and assembling statistics for his reports) before he leaves for the clinic...
...Authors William Gerhardi (holder of the Czarist Order of St. Stanislav) and Prince Leopold Loewenstein ("a graduate of the University of Vienna"). Although both authors lack professional psychiatric qualifications, their couchside manner is soothing as a deep trance, their text chockablock with neat quotes from Greek Philosopher ("Know Thyself") Thales, Robert ("To see oursels as ithers see us") Burns, Matthew ("Resolve to be thyself") Arnold. Readers answer yes or no to a string of loaded questions including: "Are you an illegitimate child?", "Are your phobias strong ones?", "Are you afraid of burglars?", "Do you dislike touching doorknobs?", "Was your father...
...every man's mind more surely than it ever did in ancient Crete, and that each man must sally forth from it after slaying his personal monsters of fear and convention. In his serene, neoclassic way. Gide puts a French accent on the pithy Greek maxim, "Know Thyself...