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Elizabeth Richmond is an unassuming, 22-year-old clerk-typist who trots dutifully to her museum job every morning and dutifully back to her brandy-swigging guardian, Aunt Morgen, every night. She has the looks and manners of a mouse, the brains of a flea and a fondness for cocoa ("Miserable puny stuff," snorts Aunt Morgen, "fit for kittens and unwashed boys"). Backaches and migraine headaches pin Elizabeth to her bed every so often, and Aunt Morgen is solicitous until she finds the girl sneaking out of the house in the small hours. Accused of a secret romance or worse...
kiddo," says Aunt Morgen, "you ought to see a doctor." Dr. Wright finds Elizabeth no more responsive than a waterlogged stick, until he tries hypnosis. Under hypnosis, Miss R.'s case, as the doctor calls it, becomes the plight of Goldilocks and those old Freudian bears, Superego, Ego and Id. Superego Elizabeth is a tense bundle of inhibitions clamped in the vise of social norms. Smothering within her is a sweet, outgoing girl, her potential Ego, whom the doctor nicknames Beth...
...course, now taught with recordings of opera, orchestral and choral works, is perhaps one of the most pleasant to sit through. For example, Davison describes Schumann's meeting with Johannes Brahms in this fashion: "'Guten Morgen, I am glad to know you. Won't you come in?' The two moved into the living room where the visitor's eyes immediately rested on the piano. Schumann hastened to ask, 'Won't you please play something of your own composition...
Next day the Oslo government made the vote public. In Washington, Norway's Ambassador Wilhelm Munthe de Morgen-stierne was welcomed at the conference table, where the representatives of the U.S., Britain, France, Benelux and Canada had shaped a pact that was almost ready for signatures. Of these nations, Norway is the only one which has a common border with Russia. Norway also sent a note to Russia frankly mentioning her participation in the Washington talks, and rejecting Moscow's demand for a Russian-Norwegian "nonaggression pact...
Richard Strauss: Songs (Lotte Lehmann, soprano, accompanied by Paul Ulanowsky, pianist; Columbia, 4 sides). The great lieder singer's first album of Strauss songs. Included are the haunting Allerseelen and the popular Morgen. Performance: excellent...