Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sign on the Door. Editors did not find it too easy to get along with this chilly little ex-soldier. He made out best with the remote bosses of the New York Times: for 13 years he covered Vienna for them, for four years was their bureau chief. But the name on the door of a second little cubbyhole office he used was changed frequently. First it was the London Times; then in succession London's Express and Telegraph. As Hitler rose to power, Gedye's impassioned warnings fell painfully on British ears...
Latter-Day Experts. Last week, back in wrecked Vienna, dressed in shorts and puffing clouds of blue smoke from his stub-stemmed pipe, Gedye was once again a familiar figure in his beloved city. He sat in the British mess hall where correspondents eat, listening to ex-police reporters who are now self-styled Mitteleuropa experts, expounding on Austrian politics. He spoke only when he was spoken...
...bomb-battered city was not the old Vienna. Wrote Gedye: "It was like walking onto a stage where the scenery of some gay Viennese operetta had been dismantled, the vivid costumes of the artists replaced by the dull garb of the scene-shifters. The curtain has fallen on Vienna's operetta existence, and it will be long before it rises again...
Under the watchful eye of Manhattan's Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, 70, pocket-sized, learned apostle who knew Freud in 1908 in Vienna, the Freudians hold it necessary for salvation that the neurotic sinner be subjected to total immersion (perhaps 200 or more one-hour sessions) to wash him down to the childhood facts behind neuroses and persuade him to face them. This often does a lot of good. The true-blue Freudians have only scorn for what Dr. Brill calls "societies and individuals who offer the public better, cheaper and quicker psychoanalyses." A true Freudian is a monotheist...
...Until World War I, a yearbook of psychoanalysis used to be published in Vienna...