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...step to another sad preoccupation. "Successful suicide," Greene writes, "is often a cry for help that has not been heard in time." With some slight prurience, he describes his schoolboy attempts to cut a vein in his leg, swallow deadly nightshade berries, handfuls of aspirin and, finally, a draft of darkroom hypo-all with no serious results. But when he ran away from school at age 16, his father sent him down to London in 1920 to be psychoanalyzed. The six-month period of analysis, Greene revealingly admits, was the most peacefully pleasant time of his life, along with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man Without | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

...hard to speak in broad principles, except to say that we wish to build at least as much community housing as we may displace. In a more practical vein, we are presently working on four projects--one of which is almost completed, another of which has recently broken ground. Still other projects are underway through the efforts of the Cambridge Corporation which was founded and is actively supported by MIT and Harvard. I would like to keep working on those projects and then review whether more should be done. I have no doubt that the University will want to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Interview With President Bok Or (Gulp), How to Run Harvard | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

Both coach and players will be much more sensitive this fall--hopefully more sensitive in an understanding rather than a resentful vein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Solid Year for Harvard Sports | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...freedom by manipulating patients like so many laboratory animals. San Francisco's Allen Wheelis, who is both psychoanalyst and thoughtful novelist, believes that a human being who submits to behavior manipulation "is treating himself as object and to some extent, therefore, becomes an object." In a similar vein, Los Angeles Analyst Judd Marmor recently wrote that the new method comes "uncomfortably close to the dangerous area of thought and behavior control." Not so, says Behaviorist Alan Goldstein of Temple University. "People come to us to have their behavior changed. It is not our choice. We don't tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHAVIOR: Neurosis: Just a Bad Habit? | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

...bill to penalize the owners of errant cats. "It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming," Stevenson explained. "The State of Illinois end its local governing bodies already have enough to do without trying to control feline delinquency." In a similar vein, Patrick Leahy, state's attorney in Chittenden County, Vt., has responded to police who requested official guidance in coping with an increase of nude swimming. Highlights of Leahy's opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Of Cats and Skinny-Dipping | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

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