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...your analyst about the ironies of the psychoanalytic movement. The aura of authority in sheepskin diplomas and overstuffed leather couches came too painfully for him to let on that analysts go mad, or that Freud sometimes showed his slip. He'd rather pretend that the great controversies and little embarrassments never happened, or are so far in the past that, well, who remembers them? Psychoanalysts may have been torn by cult politics then, but that's history, he would say, now it's a science...
...this poses a problem I wouldn't know how to solve," admits Berkeley's labor law expert David Feller. Various suggestions include work sharing, in which no one gets the pink slip but everyone has fewer hours on the job. Another is "inverse seniority," which would allow older employees, who have high, contractual unemployment benefits, to take the brunt of layoffs. The agricultural manufacturer, Deere & Co., has worked out such an arrangement on a voluntary basis. But volunteers can hardly provide a general answer. That will have to come from new legislation or the U.S. Supreme Court...
Strong skiing seems to be the style of the year. Sophomore slider Eric Jewett shows sharpening skill and should slip into the money if psyche doesn't shake his supple swerving. Unfortunately Saturday's syncopated serpentine sent the sinewy skiers into a spiralling spill...
Then, suddenly, he became a casualty of the constant tension that a covert agency must live with in an open society. As the New York Times was about to blow his cover, Angleton blew his cool. In a telephone conversation with Seymour Hersh, he let slip that the CIA had a "source" in Moscow who was "still active and still productive...
...teams matched even but rather ragged play throughout the second period, although Brown managed to slip one by Harvard netminder Barry Wald to gain the only goal of the frame...