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...Heritage and Its History, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. The 16th of the writer's novels is just like its predecessors: from a well-worn, faintly ludicrous tangle of love, marriage and the family are drawn insights sophisticated...
...threatened to throw in the kinescope. One morning, over coffee and dexidrine, he reads a newspaper story about Dr. Samuel Abelman, tracks him down, and after some effort convinces him to appear on the program. From then on, whenever it tells Thrasher's story, the movie follows a well-worn course...
...often turn soberly downward. New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton P. Anderson was obviously happy with his thoughts. Spotting Anderson alone in the corridor, a newsman hurried up, asked a question heard constantly throughout Washington: "Will he make it?" Anderson paused, drew from his inside coat pocket a well-worn tally sheet, heavily marked with circles and underlines in blue ink. The smile tugged harder at the corners of his mouth. "I'm not worried any more," said Clinton Anderson. "There will be enough votes...
There is no easy settlement for any of these squabbles; there are only a number of well-worn cliches which could be applied to the various contending parties. Taken in the aggregate, however, these battles present a very unflattering commentary on Harvard and on the level of political activity among her students...
...sharpest illustration of the difference between the existential and earlier approaches, Dr. May took the well-worn Oedipus situation and recapped it. To Freud, Oedipus meant that a child has a sexual attraction to the parent of the opposite sex; as a result, the child experiences guilt, fear of the other parent, and (in boys) castration anxiety. In Freudian and descendent schools in the U.S., the patient is helped to accept the idea that such transitory feelings are normal and natural, so he is relieved of his guilt and anxiety...