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Introspection & Intuition. Freud himself summed up this continuing similarity in his letter to Schnitzler: "I have gained the impression that you have learned through intuition-though actually as a result of sensitive introspection-everything that I have had to unearth by laborious work on other persons. I even believe that basically you are yourself a depth psychologist...
...mention that Anastasio Somoza Jr. ("Tachito") of Nicaragua was educated at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. It would make interesting reading if you could unearth the bug-brained bureaucrat who awarded a West Point appointment to the son of a foreign dictator...
...Corruption Issue" [Sept. 24], Truman's miserable record has nothing to do with this campaign. Now if you could unearth scandal during Stevenson's tenure as governor, the comparison might have some validity...
...seem ludicrous after an intense portrayal of life in the hospital wards, Director Anatole Litvak uses occasional special effects with great success, particularly for the doctors' Inquisition to which each patient must submit before release. The flash-back technique, employed when doctors probe the patient's unconscious to unearth disturbing influences, is slick and convincing...
From his uproarious retirement in California, aging (76) Author Upton (The Jungle) Sinclair, long one of America's loudest social consciences, took an ad in New Republic magazine to thunder a special plea. Sinclair, a lifelong teetotaler, was trying to unearth "a publisher who believes in abstention." In a "terrible but rigidly truthful" book titled Enemy in the Mouth, Abstainer Sinclair had "told the tragic stories of 50 alcoholic writers." Their suicide rate was ten times the U.S. norm, their lives 15 years less than the average span. After mentioning four dead drunkards in his own family (including...