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...series of accidents, the London Daily Express wondered "in the months and years before, how much vital information reached the Russians through the flagrant folly and incompetence of naval intelligence?" Mourned the Daily Mail: "The vision of an alert, unsleeping corps of first-class brains keeping watch and ward has taken another blow...
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...
...were not consist- . Halberstam writes tosses in a witty line then repeats the process. several straight-for- we begin to wait the humor that should However, the serious parts infrequent and carefully shows that of rural government turn for those who take an in the welfare of local and ward heelers. He shows position of the Negro in hasn't improved a whole Reconstruction. And, he the end that the wages better than death...
...preserved the body of his late father in formaldehyde for the past 17 months in a gilded sandalwood urn at the entrance to the palace in the royal capital of Luangprabang, on the ground that the powerful phis (spirits) that surround the corpse of a king will ward off all invaders...
...whom the book is dedicated, I cannot but express my deep concern at your warped and lurid analysis of the novel. Since you agree that the theme of the novel does not center on the disease, you have deliberately and, in my estimation, shamefully exploited medieval attitudes to ward leprosy which render needless sensationalism. Graham Greene, as a novelist, has a right to choose whatever background he finds suitable to his writings, in this case an African leprosarium. The author's attitude toward the leprosy patient is respectful, in contrast to the thoughtless attitude of your reviewer...