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...chair," insisted the psychiatrist, who guessed that it would do John a world of good to sit bolt upright for a change. "Here in this room," he told John, "nothing is shameful. Even if you've believed it is all your life. When you talk about it, John, when you get it out into the open, you'll discover it's not shame." He unscrewed the top of his fountain pen, poised it expectantly over a writing pad. Then John knew that there was no escape, and he began to talk...
...legs modified his skeleton as well as his habits. The spine curved and grew longer; the ilia or wings of the pelvis flattened out; the last vertebrae became a flexible lever on which the body's weight was poised. But nature added no new muscles to support the upright...
...prized for leather and bindings. . . ." Pointing an accusing finger at Philosopher Alfred Rosenberg, Reichsbank President Walter Funk, Labor Boss Fritz Sauckel and Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, the witness said that they had visited Dachau concentration camp, and had watched its atrocity show. (The four in the dock sat bolt upright, clenching the rail before them...
...atomic bomb; many had it on their minds even more than they talked about it. But almost without exception they were so thoroughly absorbed in immediate troubles, pleasures, hopes, angers and disappointments-and perhaps so essentially far-gone in the basic kind of hope which holds human beings upright-that they were virtually incapable of even trying to take fate into their own hands...
...conservative. She spoke of her three novels: "My books are forgotten for the moment-but they will be read again." She said of her first husband: "I took the only course that could save us from a life of self-contempt and spiritual dishonor." Of her second husband, handsome, upright and slender, with trembling hands and' bushy eyebrows, Mrs. Jardine said: "He was a passionate ornithologist-that is, he knew all about birds." She ended the chapters of her conversations with such studied, melodramatic disclosures as: "I have never seen my grandchildren...