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Albert Guerard is a Harvard English professor, and those of us who listened to his tales of Gide and watched Conrad on the psychoanalytic couch may well contend that his place is at the podium, as a critic. Anthony might be a spectator at his own doom, but like most heroes in the Age of the Common Man, he is more tedious than tragic...
Author Hubbard's tale is subtitled A Ridiculous Novel, and so it is, in a farcically amusing way. It tells how Psychiatrist Durrant-Atwill, displaying zeal above and beyond the couch, arranges the kidnaping of a famed British conductor on his way to a continental music festival, enabling George Conway to palm himself off on the foreign orchestra as the great man himself, and to scourge the players through many a furious rehearsal. It ends happily ever after with Uncle George not only promoted to Assistant Secretary to the Ministry but also appointed official "guest-conductor" to Europe...
Homecide. In Columbus, Clarence McLoughlin decided to kill himself, disconnected a gas pipe in his one-story clapboard home, dozed off, later reached for a cigarette, struck a light that demolished the house, suffered only minor injuries, was found still lying on his couch in the wreckage, told firemen: "I forgot about...
...haunted, middle-class way during that long Saturday afternoon-the sunlit late-Edwardian, early-Georgian period. Hilda is vibrant and dry-adlike-the sort of girl most men cannot stay away from, but should. Eustace cannot, which is particularly unfortunate since they are brother and sister. So an overstuffed couch of near incest trundles along through two decades. In Novel No. 1, entitled The Shrimp and the Anemone (Eustace, of course, is the poor shrimp and Hilda the voracious anemone), the pair spends a lot of time in the nursery or playing with sand castles on the seashore...
Hofmann stayed on the couch three hours until the drug's effects wore off. He got up feeling fine. After two years of delicate lab work, he announced last week, Hofmann had managed to isolate a mysterious substance-the chemical that has caused men of many races, through the millennia, to have otherworldly visions after eating certain kinds of mushrooms...