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...from Hindu yogis to Christian theologians, have studied Jung, though the latter have found his dream world of primordial archetypes to be a pagan rather than a strictly Christian one. Orthodox Freudians have denounced his ideas as pure mysticism. Artists, poets and dancers have found in them a new vein of poetic inspiration...
...first time she snorts powdered heroin she vomits. Soon enough she is warming capsules of Horse in a spoon over a burner, mainlining the drug directly into a vein. Each dose sends her into a nerveless Nirvana: "Nothing itself in a uniform of gold, and Nothing loomed bigger than Anything ever could hope to be." To get the nothing her dreams are made of, Diane takes to shoplifting, finally sinks to old-fashioned prostitution. At novel's end. Author Mandel feebly suggests that psychoanalysis may save...
...What. In more serious vein, Stevenson had another point to make: "Perhaps it isn't exactly the thing to say to a partisan meeting, but who wins this fall is less important than what wins-what ideas, what concept of the world of tomorrow, what quality of perception, leadership and courage...
Well-Worked Vein. Republicans, said Truman, "will try to make people believe that everything the Government has done for the country is socialism . . . Here you are, with your new car, and your home, and better opportunities for the kids, and a television set-just surrounded by socialism...
...Truman went on in this well-worked vein, his fellow Democrats beamed upon him. Many of the 6,000 came to the dinner convinced that Harry Truman was not their best possible candidate for 1952. But doubts must have been raised in some minds by his mastery of the formula, by his confidence, and above all by the way he convinces those who hear him that he is pouring out his whole mind, a plain man saying what he thinks. Not even Roosevelt had this ability in the degree Truman has it. Well the 6,000 have known (since...