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...revealed more freely, like confessions at a revival meeting. As with psychologists in other fields, their conclusions often seem to be commonplaces dressed up in Freudian jargon, or else fantastically far reaches, e.g., air conditioning satisfies an unconscious desire to return to the controlled climate of the womb. But to judge from the commercial results, the MR men are right at least part of the time...
...eternal outcast and misfit. Blok's misadventures begin with his falling into a ditch, lead on to a Turkish bath frequented by a couple that have leprosy, and continue with a sort of Freudian secret society that tries to honor Dr. Blok by returning him to the womb (whether literally or symbolically, Author Piatigorsky does not say). But something goes wrong, and Dr. Blok winds up not in the planned destination but in a double-bass case. "I am a little bit Blok myself," says Piatigorsky...
...clubfoot and similar malformations, which may be congenital (in that a child has them at birth) but which are not, so far as is known, the result of defective genes, and therefore are not predetermined at conception. They are caused by events, still unknown, occurring during life in the womb, and some of them can be repaired by surgery. Many have no proved relation to heredity, e.g., eczema, psoriasis, allergic diseases, migraine, stuttering. Others are known to occur more commonly in some families than in others, such as diabetes and nearsightedness. "Another large group," Kemp notes, "includes psychopathy, psychopathic...
Great Britain has a high standard of living, full employment, political freedom, womb-to-tomb medical care, and as much peace as most nations in the world. Why should a Briton want to leave home? Yet when the Gallup poll (published last week) asked, "If you were free to do so, would you like to go and settle in another country?", 41% of the Britons polled answered yes, and another 12% said they were not sure...
...could be done with molded plywood. In the U.S., Architect Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames teamed up in 1940 to produce a molded plywood chair that shifted the emphasis to organic shape, form-fitted to the human body. Using molded plastic, Saarinen then developed the idea into his famed "womb" chair; Eames evolved a whole series, ranging from his early hard-surfaced plywood "potato chip" chair to plastic chairs which dovetail into stacks for storage, that today makes him a modern bestseller and last week earned him the American Institute of Architects' Craftsmanship Medal...