murders, numerous trysts, a bloody accident, and a Goldman Band con-

cert.

Just in case the geography and chronology fail in their duties, we have a Greek chorus in the daydreams of patrolman Hal (Fordham) Barton. He sums up his reveries to the captain thuslike: "I know just what you mean. I was just thinking a few minutes ago that the trouble with people is that they call for help when it's too late mean, sir, we policemen don't get the respect that I had when I was a kid. Fear and hate don't make for cooperation." Kidding?

Conventionalized naturalism.

TAKE OFF YOUR MASK by Ludwig Eidelberg, M. D. New York: Pyramid Books (paperback) G-404, 1959. 35¢. -reviewed by Jim Ogden

ing processes of human action and reaction is extraordinary.

There are many passages discussing latent homosexuality in several of the chapters, especially chapter five, describing a case of jealousy based on illusions and hallucinations, which is explained during the discussion as disguised desires the patient has himself for the other man.

Most interesting to me was the chapter on a homophile (who is worried about premature ejaculation and seeks aid from the psychoanalyst), which develops into an illuminating conversation on the tie between the sex impulse and artistic talent. The prospective patient is a painter and a homophile not an uncommon combination and wants to remain a homophile if the alternative is that his talent as an artist would disappear along with his other "deviations"

from the comfortable statistical meThe ability to "popularize" a techdian. His ability as an artist he renical system of thought is a rare and fuses to jeopardize in order to cure special gift. The talent of a great the premature ejaculation condition teacher seems to me to be central athat is understandably irritating to round this power that of at one him.

time appealing to information and Dr. Eidelberg is intelligent in his and experiences possessed by the arguments with this man and as fairstudent as well as at the same time minded as one might expect, although, pointing out consequences and meanconsidering the state of our knowings contained, in embryo perhaps, ledge concerning the root of artisin those experiences and facts of tic ability, its relationship to all oconsciousness common to both teather components of the total personcher and student. ality, I feel there are assertions made on both sides in the conversations that are dubious to say the least.

Psychoanalysis is a learning sit uation as Dr. Eidelberg points out in chapter one, "A Bottle Broke," This is a small point considering and the author is a good man to teach the great value of the rest of the the subject. His manner of explainwork, and its charm of presentation.

THE ODD ONES by Edwina Mark. least an interesting story. The sexNew York: Berkeley Pub. Co., 1959, ual passages are rather graphic, and 35¢, paperback. it is enjoyable reading in the descriptive places. Some humorous -reviewed by Peter Jackson scenes laid in a Greenwich Village bar setting forth an incipient fight at between two female homosexuals.

Lesbian novel pretty well done

HOMOPHILIC BIBLIOGRAPHY (cont.) od

Lucian. DIALOGUES. (especially Dialogues of the Gods and Dialogues of the Courtesans). Various translations.

Lucian. THE TRUE HISTORY. (n; II). Various translations. Lunn, Arnold. SCRAP OF PAPER. (ss, in "Georgian Stories 1922"; II). New York: Macy-Masius, 1923.

CALLING SHOTS (cont.)

costume, or a dance that simulated a triangular duel that was performed by three masked dancers, or music for a matachin dance. The word was used literally and figuratively, as in John Webster's famous play The White Devil in 1612 where one character says to another, "We have brought you a Maske." To which the other replies,

"A matachine, it seems

By your drawn swords." Sometimes it could be used to strengthen a metaphor, as when Richard Cary in 1677 spoke of, "Acting in a Mata-

Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy-making among free men.

-HERBERT HOOVER

chin of Discord." Captain John Smith used it in the sense of masked warfare when in his Virginia in 1624 he "Concluddescribed the Indians as, ing a tripartite peace of their Mattachin Warre."

The word is used to this day among the Spanish-speaking Indians of the pueblos of New Mexico and along the Rio Grande in the form of matachina. Among them the term refers to groups of masked Indians who go about during Lent, acting out folk dramas about Montezuma, the last of the Aztec kings, with singing, dancing, a chorus, and a small group of principal actors.

The most durable foundations for hope for a better future for humanity seem to me to be found in history, literature and religion. 、

-BLISS PERRY

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