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...Your article on dianetics is on the whole a capable and lucid job of reporting on a topic of great significance. It is somewhat unfortunate, however, that . . . the specter of hypnotism was allowed to rear its ugly head in your article-when you neglect to state specifically that precise and positive precautions are always taken in each dianetic therapy session to prevent the patient from slipping even accidentally into a trance...
...that "[Editor Robert] Brittain's efforts may rescue Smart from his long imprisonment in a literary footnote." It is true that Smart had to wait a long time to receive his proper praise (and appraisal) as a highly original poet. But, after almost two centuries of neglect, Smart has been discovered and rediscovered in the last dozen years. I refer, for example, to the ten pages devoted to him in my Treasury of Great Poems (Simon & Schuster) published...
...voting is affected as much by the merit of speeches as by the merit of motions; it is, after all, a debating club. Third, the oratory of Mr. Randolph Churchill, in marked contrast to that of his distinguished father, has always been a sure vote-loser amongst Oxford audiences. Neglect of these considerations caused widespread American misunderstanding of the 1933 "King and Country" [pacifist] motion. It would be a thousand pities if a similar misunderstanding flowed from this...
...opened Southern juries to the Negro. The rest was a gamy tale of Patterson's life in Alabama's Atmore and Kilby prisons. He told of intrigues, knifings, murders, fornications and homosexual acts in prison, and Patterson freely named guards and officials to whom he attributed cruel neglect and brutality...
...partial adjustment and become involved in marriage, but this solves the problem only outwardly ... A closer inspection will demonstrate the same pattern of flight and combat interwoven with the marriage thread. There may be an excessive . . . interest in card playing and club and sport pursuits and a proportionate neglect of the husband. This type will take great interest in traveling alone, in purchasing expensive clothes, perhaps even in the aggressive pursuit of a career. Pregnancy is avoided as a nuisance or even a calamity...