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...with his wife, Cornelia Golay Benedict, the author of this peanut theory. They reached their conclusions after a series of tests on six subjects, observed under the following conditions: 1) in a state of mental vacuity; 2) with their attention being called periodically by electrical signals; 3) solving complex problems without aid of pencil or paper (multiplication of 43 x 87 was one problem...
...likes to lick her kittens, but her behavior to them is not in any way similar to her behavior in the presence of a tom. Yet I feel that Dr. Freud, watching her physical caresses of her offspring, would suspect her of incestuous longings. The Oedipus complex, where it occurs, is always caused by a wrong attitude, in the mother-an attitude mainly, of seeking from children a spurious imitation of satisfactions only fully derivable from sexual relations between adults...
Chamber and Senate last week passed legislation to increase duties by weight instead of ad valorem on imported motor cars (TIME, April 21). The Chamber later carried a Government motion waiving the usual six-week Easter recess, compelling Parliament to sit and sweat over a complex social insurance bill already debated to distraction...
...mind. In the beginning the Man lies prostrate in the darkness with a monstrous batlike creature crouched on top of him. Then at the climax a piercing yellow fills the stage as the storm comes up, symbolic of the Man's premonition of impending doom. Despite the complex, sometimes shrill chromatic combinations, Schönberg seemed subdued and civilized compared afterward with naked, uncouth Stravinsky. The stage production was directed by Rouben Mamoulian. The settings and costumes were designed by famed Robert Edmond Jones...
Compare most of those letters that appear, to the really intelligent one of Peter S. Ellis. However, I can add but little to your courageous comment below the letters. It is short, sweet, correct. My vote of thanks here for one magazine not afflicted with a Reform-Complex nor the ostrich tactics of some individuals...