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That has been true from the first. In the early 1920s, Moscow was on excellent terms with Turkey's Kemal Atatürk. But this did not prevent Atatürk from killing off the leading Communists in his country. Egypt's late Gamal Abdel Nasser accepted Soviet money, advice and, in some areas, decisionmaking. But in 1959 he clapped hundreds of Communists into prison. Throughout the Middle East, the Communist Party is legal only in Lebanon-and, ironically, Israel. In Sudan, where it is technically banned but has operated openly, its continued existence is now threatened...
...atmosphere of a reconciliatory love feast, the congress's stated central theme was aggression. With this the orthodox analysts had difficulty coming to grips, as had the master himself long ago. Freud at first identified aggression with sadism and therefore related it to sexuality. In the 1920s he revised his views and accorded aggression the status of a separate instinct. He also related it to his theory of a death instinct. Five eminent analysts had been invited to make major presentations on aggression at a plenary session, and most of their long discussion was devoted to what critics...
...Middle West raised to the flashpoint, the authoritarian dogmas of the Bible Belt and the perennial revolt against them colliding at critical mass under the palm trees. Out of it comes a cultural situation where only the extreme is normal." To reinforce that pattern, Hollywood bloomed in the 1920s, adding a permanent "population of genius, neurosis, skill, charlatanry, beauty, vice, talent and plain old eccentricity...
...addition to its other distinctions, Chicago has traditionally been a terrific newspaper town, with lively dailies rolling out breathless new editions all day long. As Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur related in The Front Page, competition among Chicago papers in the 1920s was fierce-and sometimes violent. Today's newspaper battle is less bloody but scarcely less frantic. Circulation campaigns are fought with radio and TV spots instead of hired toughs, and an exclusive is more often a series of sober public service articles about mental health than a blaring bannerline scoop about a trunk murder. But Chicago remains...
...Poltics of Piety In American Protestantism, as in American political parties, the bitterest factional fights are often within denominations rather than between them. A vigorous, angry, conservative rebellion is challenging the liberals who have dominated mainstream Protestant churches almost steadily since the 1920s. The central issues vary from church to church, but they center on three areas of disagreement: strict v. liberal interpretation of the Bible, evangelism v. social action, and a distrust of ecumenism v. an eagerness for church merger. U.S. Episcopalians felt the crunch of disagreement last fall (TIME, Nov. 2), Presbyterians and Methodists more recently. Nowhere...