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...Catholic church in the town of Dover-red brick St. Philomena's, which Pastor Joseph J. Boyle and the members of his three-year-old parish had just completed. Suddenly a news item riveted Cardinal Cushing's attention: the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of Rites had stricken St. Philomena, "the virgin martyr," from the roster of saints. For the cardinal, who had distributed 800 statuettes of St. Philomena to Dover's Catholics, it was an unexpected blow...
...that after the Geneva conference that divided Indo-China seven years ago, just about everybody predicted that Diem could never last. Not only has he lasted, but South Viet Nam has prospered to become an even more tempting target for the Reds-and a standing contrast to the poverty-stricken Communist North. Helped along by $150 million in U.S. aid each year, the South is a hard-working country of paddyfields, coconut groves, rubber plantations and flourishing light industry. South Viet Nam exported 350,-ooo tons of rice last year, seven times the 1957 figure, and currency reserves swelled...
Freud's classic example was of little Hans, aged five, who was panic-stricken at the idea of having to go out in the street. Why? Freud explained that little Hans had strong Oedipal feelings toward his mother; therefore he had hostility to ward his father and therefore anxiety. He repressed the anxiety and converted it into hippophobia ? he was afraid to go out be cause he was afraid of being castrated by the bite of a horse. To Freud the horse represented little Hans's father. This elaborate hypothesis neatly fitted Freud's preoccupation with castration fears, which...
...settling down of Gothic and miasmal mist, but even here, Gabrielle Bompard is wildly and insistently alive, whether jabbing a coachman with her imperious parasol or grumbling crossly at a tired lover: "Is it my fault if men overestimate their capacities?" Many readers, like Jacquemar himself, may be horror-stricken to find that they "cannot help loving this terrible woman...
...over to cover the war by the Illustrated London News, incurred the wrath of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton by writing too candidly of the Union defeat: "Retreat is a weak term to use when speaking of this disgraceful rout, for which there was no excuse. The terror-stricken soldiers threw away their arms and accoutrements, herding along like a panic-stricken flock of sheep...