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...Breuer, an early associate of Freud's, are striking an odd bargain. The physician will try to cure his patient's migraine attacks; the philosopher will treat the doctor's deep- rooted angst. Soon their roles reverse: healer becomes sufferer and, voila!, the psychoanalytic revolution begins. In WHEN NIETZSCHE WEPT (Basic Books; $20), psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom imagines an encounter between two < real people who never met. The novel is strewn with italic sentences to highlight his characters' head-smacking insights. Still, their relationship carries a certain poignancy as they discover their common roots: delusion and loneliness...
...over the nation, ever since Governor Earl Warren and half a million people turned out to meet General Douglas MacArthur in San Francisco on his return from the Far East. President Harry Truman had dismissed the outspoken General, but Congress invited him to a love fest where members wept openly. The people supported MacArthur against Truman, 66% to 25%, according to Gallup...
...years critics said he was too casual and lacked the competitive fire to go with a liquid swing that makes even other pros jealous. When he blew a 5- ft. putt to help the American team lose the Ryder Cup to Britain in 1989, he wept. His friend Raymond Floyd, 49, as intense on the course as Couples is relaxed, taught him some golf truths, prime among them that when a player has a lead, he needs to get a bigger lead. In winning the Masters, Couples beat -- who else? -- Raymond Floyd, by two strokes...
...Kitt came down the course, eight Americans huddled round walkie-talkies and urged him on, "Go, go, be aggressive, be aggressive. That's it, come on. Be aggressive!" He finished ninth. And when local favorite Fabrice Guy finally crossed the finish line for gold in Nordic combined, women wept...
Then a representative of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America suggested not only that the icon had never wept, but also that the purported theft had been an inside job. St. Irene's bishop, Vikentios of Avlon, who belongs to a breakaway branch of the church, retorted that he would file a $50 million defamation suit against the archdiocese. The police say they have no evidence of fraud. If St. Irene was not crying before...