Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because Sigmund Freud invented psychoanalysis, there was no old couchman around to analyze him and get him started on the right track-so he analyzed himself. Now Erich Fromm, one of the most eminent of today's analysts, who differs with Freud on many vital issues, has subjected the founder to a searching analysis from the outside. It is not the first such effort, but the best. In Sigmund Freud's Mission, (Harper; $3), German-born Author Fromm casts grave doubt on Biographer Ernest Jones's description of Freud's self-analysis as "an imperishable feat...
...amusing and more than half-convincing theme of Author Durrell's book seems to be that, in certain vital respects, Marxism has not altered the Balkans from the dear old musical-comedy days, when their wars were fought by Chocolate Soldiers and their diplomats were outmaneuvered by Merry Widows...
...Stop atmospheric tests -detectable -which spread fallout and stir up world opinion; police this stoppage by overflights of Russia and the U.S. ¶ Continue experiments with underground shots to see whether a foolproof detection system can be worked out. ¶ Meanwhile resume undetectable tests underground -no fallout -of weapons vital to U.S. defense...
...Vital to eternal equipoise...
...that, British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia replied tartly that it was hard to believe that "the entire national security of the U.S. would be imperiled if two turbines were built by her ally, Britain." He implied that a $1,757,210 contract could not make or break a vital industry, especially since there are five U.S. manufacturers of hydraulic turbines. Moreover, U.S. manufacturers have won 21 of the 23 important Government hydraulic-turbine jobs since 1952. Still unsatisfied, they are lobbying hard to bar foreign manufacturers from bidding...