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...they began to get obscene telephone calls, Bowman simply hung up, saying "wrong number, wrong number." The Bowmans did not realize then that the "pranks" were only the beginning of months of terror in which their spirits would gradually decay and their happiness disintegrate under the pressure of an unseen force...
...atone for his nation's past war guilt? The answer is devastating in its self-pity and irresponsibility. Neither the West nor the East will permit Germany to atone, to "fight the cold war with peace." The endlessly zooming cyclists are part of the space race, and an unseen "General" has decreed that this race must go on and on. When he realizes this, Holbrook picks out a spectral home on the Milky Way. Playwright Wittlinger poses as a Pirandellphic oracle, but his hollow parable is less an adventure of the mind than an abject failure of nerve...
When they were child prodigies on radio, Zooey reminds her, Seymour always insisted that they shine their shoes "for the Fat Lady"?for all the lonely, unlovely, unseen but very real people "out there." Zooey's monologue soars: "Are" you listening to me? There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know?listen to me, now?don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. Ah. buddy. It's Christ himself. Christ himself, buddy...
...Unseen ears are the dominant presence in every U.S. home and office in a Communist country. A foreign service officer must drill himself never to quote a source by name for fear a U.S. agent will be identified or an innocent acquaintance charged with espionage. He can never talk shop with his wife or pass on gossip that could reveal a colleague's foibles and lead to blackmail. With friends, he must listen closely to others' conversation, be continually alert to give or obey the service's traditional signal to change the subject: a long, pointed look...
...damn thing comes from or goes to." Finally, in the persistence of religious movements throughout history, Jung saw an archetypal need for a religious attitude. A religion did not need to be formalized, he insisted; but to be emotionally healthy, a man must have made his peace with the unseen and perhaps unknowable power behind creation and the universe. Unable to accept the sexcentricity of psychoanalysis, Jung broke with Freud in 1913. But as a sworn foe of rigid organizations, Jung discouraged his followers from starting formal institutes to perpetuate his own teaching...