Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ellsworth ("Sonny Boy") Wisecarver, who delighted tabloid readers a few years ago by starting to run around with married women when he was only 14, was 19 now and getting a new view of home-wrecking. After 18 months of marriage, his wife went home to mother (she still thinks he is a "swell guy"). Sonny Boy considered the situation: "I guess I haven't been as good a husband as I should...
...them. The man who wanders so far from reality that he lives in a daydream is a psychotic, suffering from, a psychosis (psychiatrists consider "insanity" an oldfashioned, legal term, without medical meaning). The man who cannot be happy with his environment or himself - who suffers from his own slanted view of the world - is suffering from a psychoneurosis (neurosis for short). A psychotic is much sicker; but both psychotics and neurotics can be cured...
...patient gets used to having the analyst there, listening. The analyst does not try to boss, but often guides, the patient. The theory is that if the patient talks enough about his troubles, he will finally get 1) the relief any confession brings; 2) a somewhat less sentimental view of himself; 3) a realization that he too can be a grownup...
Most so-called serious novelists have an ax to grind, a true bill to find, a point of view that they want to uphold regardless of how many opposing points of view they may have to howl down or ignore in the process. James Gould Cozzens is like his fellows in this respect-with one admirable difference. The point he insists on making is that the world is far too wrapped up in different points of view for any one of them to be entirely true, that "the Nature of Things abhors a drawn line and loves a hodgepodge...
...Pluribus Unum. No technical innovator, Author Cozzens demonstrates his theme by the popular "Grand Hotel" method of assembling hordes of people, all with singular points of view, in one place-a huge World War II airbase. in Florida. Some of them are elderly, Regular Army officers to whom the mechanics of war are as vital as the winning of it. Some are much too bogged down in personal miseries and prejudices to recognize the overriding claims of victory: others are far too intent on victory to show any tolerance for human weaknesses. In fact, as Author Cozzens shows, the marvel...