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...difference whether someone was interested in "peace." The frustration of the peace marcher, who was so insulted when the State Department did not actually talk policy with him was similar in kind, if not in quantity, to the frustration of the American citizen who stood by watching the drama unfold in the Caribbean. Both felt impotence, both felt despair...
With sweep and color, the book tells how Lenin turned from a peaceful student into a fiery revolutionist after the czarist police killed his brother. In detail, the authors unfold the subsequent chain of tragedies: Lenin's minority-party power grab in 1917, Stalin's further perversion of Marxist ideals. Russia's nationalistic heroism in World War II and its postwar imperialism, the chilling struggle for Kremlin power after Stalin's death, and the sharp differences among Communist countries. Adlai Stevenson praises the book for its "new insights" and "fresh, factual appraisal...
...face, but Dr. Josef Breuer (Larry Parks) describes a hysteric named Cecily (Susannah York) who relieved a symptom simply by talking about what caused it. Freud takes over the case. And so begins a vastly exciting drama of detection, in which the audience simultaneously sees a lurid mystery unfold and a momentous theory develop. Following his patient's lead, Freud successively discovers the therapeutic methods of catharsis, free association and dream analysis, finally derives from a heroic self-analysis his doctrine that most neurosis results from sexual conflict...
...Ottawa to review the show again. This time he echoed what the association had been saying all along, explained his goof of last summer as being due to the intoxicating air of Cape Cod and "the ingestion of seafood platters.'' Now the curious story began to unfold in public, and the Chrysler catalogue itself became a kind of classic...
Below, spectators began gathering, like a Greek chorus, to watch the tragedy unfold. When the four men appeared to be moving too slowly to make the top, rescuers were alerted. Improvising as best they could, the rescuers began an ordeal as harrowing as that of the climbers. They struggled up the slope with heavy equipment. Some of them fell into deep crevasses along the way, seriously injured. By this time both Germans had fallen to their deaths; Corti and Longhi were stranded on different ledges on the wall. Securing a winch to the ice on the razor-thin summit...