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...results: "Ostensibly . . . minds are being cleared. But are they? If Christ was just a man, and Mary just a wife, if God is a likely probability and life after death a less likely one, then it is sensible enough not to trouble too much about these things. But if, in crises, the people who don't bother about God start praying . . . if, at funerals, the people who don't bother about life after death want assurance . . . then we may legitimately be suspicious. Are these minds clearer, or are they . . . less clear than ever...
...patient was a middle-aged factory worker who got fed up with his job and his fellow workers. One day he suddenly blew up and was dragged away, struggling, to a hospital. There he quickly developed total amnesia; he could not even recognize his wife. A month later, still in a mental fog, he was examined by Boston's Psychiatrist Abraham Myerson...
...decided to try a simple prescription: he gave the patient a mild dose of a soothing drug (sodium amytal) to lower his inhibitions and make him talk, combined with a stimulant (Benzedrine) to keep him awake. Then he closeted the patient in a room with the patient's wife. When the doctor looked in again, some 45 minutes later, the patient was chattering like a machine gun. The doctor asked: "Do you recognize this woman?" "Certainly," snapped the patient, "she's my wife." A cure had been worked without psychotherapy...
...toward the emotion of the listener. Music must be an inspiration for the people; the mission of the Soviet composer must be to educate the good taste of the people." Both the Shostakovich children, daughter Galya, 11, and son Maxim, 9, are taking piano lessons. His short, plump, blonde wife Nina, who helps answer questions for her husband, said: "Dmitri doesn't think either of them has shown any particular talent, but Maxim's teacher says he is already showing signs of becoming a great pianist." Snapped Dmitri, who was already composing at that age: "All piano teachers...
...across this diary while researching his latest novel, Lydia Bailey (TIME, Jan. 6), and got all excited about it. Written in French, and almost unknown in the U.S., the diary was a sophisticated study, by an observant French emigre, of the callow U.S. of the 1790s. Roberts persuaded his wife to translate it and polished the translation himself. First of Moreau de St. Méry's many works to be put into English, it is not to be compared for literary quality to the contemporary notes of another French traveler, Chateaubriand. But it introduces to U.S. readers...