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...palace houses the famed Topkapi jewels, long a must for tourists in present-day Istanbul, but the principal sight will be the intricate maze of grandly decorated apartments. They include the gilded, rococo Hall of the Sultan, where reigning monarchs reclined on a brocaded couch to watch dancing girls perform. Near by are the royal baths, which featured marble floors, golden faucets and slave girls to assist the sultan in his bath. Then there are the gilded and inlaid bedchambers...
...their sons and want to kill them," he declared. "This congress treats its main topic as if aggression were limited to relations between two individuals, as if we were not faced constantly with war and mass murder." Then Mitscherlich made a heretical suggestion: analysts should get out of the couch-lined offices where they treat only one patient at a time, and join the action alongside the social sciences. "What can we as analysts do in our respective communities? How can we bring reason to bear on dangerous rationalizations that are being used to justify openly aggressive behavior?" he asked...
...taut Assistant Secretary, John McNaughton, now dead, sweeping confident eyes across the map of the world and talking fast, very fast. Speaking ever so precisely of the potential of yet another of Saigon's revolving governments, the coatless Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy stretched out on his leather couch. Brooding over all loomed the peaked profile of Lyndon Johnson, secretive, holding his options open until the final moment, seemingly unwilling even to confide in himself what he would do next...
...with much of the original furniture for its opening last week as a museum. There were his cream-colored velour hat, his checkered sports cap, his ivory-handled cane, sent over from London by his psychoanalyst daughter Anna Freud. She could not bear, however, to part with the famed couch. Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky was on hand for the occasion, with a clutch of city councilors, but Vienna is still almost as cool as it always was to its most illustrious modern son. Of the city's 113 listed psychiatrists, only twelve practice Freud's analysis, and Vienna...
...mother can be in there too -and she goes out of her mind with joy. But is he too jolly? Yes. Driven by something that is bigger than him and bigger than anybody. There is the smell of position and power already in Kennedy's office. The couch is thick and lush, not the black Government issue. The pictures on the walls are large and professional-of family and friends, telling in their way the Senator's past and his purpose. The other candidates seem like renters in their quarters. Kennedy seems...