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The line-up for the psychiatrists: Dr. Joseph B. Wheelwright, British-educated Jungian; Dr. William A. Bellamy, Freudian; and Dr. Sam Nelken, an "eclectic" analyst who teaches at the University of California Medical School. For the priests: the Rev. Victor White, a Dominican, professor of theology at Oxford and lecturer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Improvisation on Guilt | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

SINCERELY, WILLIS WAYDE (511 pp.)-John P. Marquand- Little, Brown ($3.95).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Babbitt | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

When Willis Wayde was a young man, his father had a serious talk with him. "Willis," said the old man, "you keep on trying to be something you aren't, and you'll end up a son of a bitch . . . A lot of people do before they know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Babbitt | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

The typical Marquand hero is usually caught in the middle-classic double play: Ford to Buick to Cadillac. But where The Late George Apley had a lot of endearing old charms and H. M. Pulham, Esq. wore his stuffiness with a certain dignity, Willis Wayde comes closer to being a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Babbitt | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Shades of Uriah Heep. Not that it is all Willis Wayde's fault. When he first arrives at Clyde, Mass, from Denver, he is a likable youngster. But he is quickly made to feel that he and his parents are nomads from the great American desert west of Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Babbitt | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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