Word: analyst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City weekend. Hatless and smartly turned out in a sporty belted coat, she carried a small valise. But Judith Coplon was no ordinary working girl. At 27, she had risen to a job which was listed by the civil service as political analyst, foreign agents registration section, Department of Justice...
Local optometrists were reported forming a "light market" to hawk the shady publications, and one merchant stated that "after all, the magazines were probably too sexy for Harvard pupils." Paul W. Mandel '51, noted naval analyst, was quoted as saying...
Alexander Korda imported Burgess Meredith to England to play the thoughtful, smiling, pipe-smoking analyst, who, exasperated by his ineffectual, though devoted spouse, falls in love with another woman. So intent is he on curing a young ex-flyer who has tried to kill his own wife, that the psychiatrist is unable to patch up the disintegrating marriage in his own home...
Psychiatrically, the picture appears valid. Although the unusual problems of a neurotic veteran with a guilt complex and an analyst who can't swallow his own pills seem always consistent and never phony, I couldn't help wishing that "Mine Own Executioner" had dug a little deeper into some of the most interesting, though less spectacular cases, that popped up here or there. The picture was designed to create suspense, and it looks like the writers slipped in justification for the tense climax afterwards. The suspense is there all right, but you've seen that part before...
...triangle situation luckily lacks the long passionate moments of hackncydom and Renunciation that inevitable turn up in homegrown productions. Instead of showing the audience that the analyst is cheating, "Mine Own Executioner" tips us off to the reasons and analyzes them...