seem to have discovered the value of generally sublimated emotions, a value to both the big and the little brother. And element of artificiality, of embarrassed overmasculinity, of pompousness in their work seems to stem from their inability to face the implications of their discovery...

NYC pediatrician sez parents over-emphasize trivial habits like finger-sucking. Deplored tendency to consider all child problems as psychiatric... Hacker Clinic's Mrs. Jean Livermore tells parents: don't fuss when kids cuss . . . Noveist Margharita Laski sez one-third of British brides pregnant . . . Albert Edw. Wiggam, D.Sc., sez women seldom have sort of friendships men do; also notes mental hospitals need volunteers to cheer up patients J. Edgar Hoover sez rise in sex crimes

Natl. Inst. of Health psychiatrist Leonard Duhl deplores suburbia conditions creating conformist matriarchal society with men merely overnight and weekend guests. . . Dr. Franz Alexander sez insanity on increase because man and his world too complex, too changing . Deploring current anti-intellectual patterns, Worcester Bishop John J. Wright said we should be slow to label those who have new or disturbing ideas. "The wrath of the stupid has laid waste the world quite as often as has the craft of the bright." . . . Rt. Rev. Msgr. John J. McMahon of Buffalo recently attacked the NY TIMES as dangerously more interested in individual liberty than national security, calling paper "chief protagonist of a growing, dangerous idea involving individual freedom in the United States."

.. Dr. Ruth Alexander sez since we're virtually at war with Russ already, civil rights of persons suspected of disloyalty, indiscretion, immorality or treachery should be

suspended, considering country's safety ahead of rights of some few who might be innocent . . . Dr. Milton Sapirstein (PARADOXES OF EVERYDAY LIFE, Random, 1955) sez much-talked-about freedom an illusion, that we are and ought to be more dependent than independent. Sez those who talk about freedom are unhappy and need most to be free of selves . . . Psychologist Mortimer Ostow told Amer. Psychological Assn. world needs to be informed about death instinct as preventative to war. Psychoanalyzing all political candidates would also help, he felt. . . Newscolumnist Syd Harris asked whether men of special gifts should be morally impeccable, or should be "above the law." Mentions Conductor Y, Nazi during war, and Sir X, British actor recently involved in perversion with minor (you are inaccurate, Mr. Harris). Problems is touchy. We hate to allow geniuses more leash than rest of us, but wouldn't toss out classics by those whose personal lives we disapprove. Perhaps our moral standards fall short of realism or honesty . . . Pope Pius, described as something of a hot-rodder, recently told motorscooter fans people oughtn't criticize their speed or noise, after all, they might be buzzing off to Church . . Yeah... Group of warbling evangelists ("Jesus Jazzers," the inmates called them) long wont to serenade their captive audience from corridors of Kings County Jail, Seattle, till prisoner complained that by being forced to listen he was denied religious freedom, and that prison rules forbade services outside chapel. Judge Findley, sidestepping the constitutional question, upheld rule limiting services to chapel, with voluntary attendance. One evangelist complained, "Why, we've been the bulwark against Communism in that jail for years..."

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