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Britain has been made Freud-conscious by the championship of Dr. Jones, the masterly translations of James Strachey, the polemics of Partisan Edward Glover, and the fatal fascination-plus plot ideas -Freud held out to all fiction writers. Yet all of Great Britain (pop. 51 million) has half as many analysts as New York City. There are Englishmen who still like to quote Punch's burlesque "explanation" of Freud back in 1934: "Without psychoanalysis we should never know that when we think a thing the thing we think is not the thing we think we think but only...
...varsity can remember the technical fine points that kept in ahead in the first half of Thursday's BLC game, and which it forgot in the second and fatal (7-9) half, it may be able to turn the first Eastern Intercollegiate League contest into its first victory...
...turned out to be a 75-minute work of massive and somber effect, full of vocal know-how and modern coloration, but weak in dramatic contrast. In most of the first act Joan prepares for her fatal final appearance before her inquisitors, and a kindly priest beseeches her in mellow song to temper her heresy. Its moment of pathos comes near act's end, as Joan refuses to exchange her male clothes for a dress, and the episode closes with music of real poignance. Act II moves more swiftly as Joan clashes violently with Bishop Pierre Cauchon, the only...
...pause: "Sometimes I don't get myself"). Much of the nighttime drama was equally soapy. Robert Montgomery Presents featured Henry Jones as a lack-wit garage mechanic who first fails in an attempt to murder his wife, and then wants her to live when she has a near-fatal accident. Climax! sniffled over the woes of beautiful Ruth Roman as she gambled away her husband's nest egg, was accused of stealing $5,000, and made a gesture toward suicide before falling into hubby's arms in a roadside motel for the final clinch that solved everything...
Students planning to travel abroad this summer have been urged to come to the Hygiene Department for vaccinations. Dr. John C. Wells, assistant physician, stressed the importance of tetanus immunization, observing that when the disease is contracted, it is fatal in more than one-third of the cases...