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...device to impress that woman with one's virility? This, at any rate, is the view held by practitioners of a new offshoot of depth psychology known as Motivation Research. For an account of the mass psychology that has the whole U.S. economy on its analyst's couch, see MEDICINE, Psychology...
...general company (Dan Dailey, Ginger Rogers, Barbara Rush) is quite pleasant, and Tony Randall in his best scene provides a hilarious footnote to an era in which the lounge lizard has been replaced by the couch cowboy...
...Women! (20th Century-Fox) is a dull consulting-room comedy, but a brilliant illustration of what is wrong with most jokes about psychoanalysis. People who have not laid themselves on the couch are hardly in a position to get the joke, while people who get up from it have generally lost their sense of humor on the subject. Nonetheless, Edward Chodorov's play had a startling success in Manhattan, where the largest group of U.S. psychoanalysts lives and practices-apparently as a sort of cut-rate abreaction for those who agree with Sam Goldwyn that "anybody who would...
...energy was fabulous. When he was past 80, a visitor found him jumping up and down on his dressing-room couch, trying to reach the ceiling and shouting: "I am an old man. Why has God afflicted me with the blood of a 17-year-old?" When he was a pink-cheeked 83, he led the NBC Symphony in a grueling whirlwind tour of 20 U.S. cities in six weeks. At 85, he conducted perhaps the finest performance (Beethoven's Ninth Symphony) of his career. When he finally withdrew to his Riverdale home, he still spent long hours...
...Cook's tour of the Mediterranean world of 500 B.C. The voluble guide is a young superman called Turms, who clobbers men, conquers women and seeks his ease in the lap of the gods ("I saw her, the goddess, taking shape and resting lightly on the couch, lovelier than all earthly women . . ."). Turms is also busy making history. He contributes to the death struggle between Greece and Persia by setting fire to the temple of the Persian goddess Cybele in Sardis, helps incite war between Carthage and Sicily, insults the majesty of Rome, and leads his fellow Etruscans...