My psychoanalytic avocation (a total of seven years of institutional post-analysis “informatory” training - in American terms seminar-auditing - at two of Berlin’s leading psychoanalytic institutes) has coincidentally just led me to stumble upon a paper by the New York psychoanalyst Jack Drescher, M.D., printed in the professional publication Psychiatric Times, and indirectly relevant to [...]
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Fellow codgers here will recall perhaps the first genuinely great American television journalist, the Columbia Broadcasting System’s Edward R. Murrow, whose numerous accomplishments probably hit their highest point when he single-handedly reversed the ultra-reactionary direction the USA had taken in mortal fear of that era’s villainous junior senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy. With his customary [...]
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Earlier this week I inadvertently frustrated gambolers in this rumpus room by dangling before you a link to an extraordinary television clip some schmuck evidently zapped out of existence by the time most of you tried to see it. It showed this fireball angeleña psychologist in full extemporaneous cry as participant in a panel discussion [...]
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Herewith the text of an email I’ve just given maximum distribution worldwide:
After my broadcasting that link - and testing it to make certain that it did indeed still work - an early-rising Washingtonian emailed me the equivalent of “What clip?”
Rosalyn Bloch’s original email from Brentwood, in which she had thoughtfully made it available to me, [...]
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Rosalyn Bloch, an angeleña psychoanalyst friend of mine, has made my morning by dropping into my lap an astonishing videoclip extracted from an apparent panel discussion on the maverick Arab television station Al Jazeera - based in the tiny emirate of Qatar (pop. 841,000 - placing it in 158th place worldwide), but because of its [...]
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I proudly claim three German godsons, the older two (twins) taken to Canada years ago when their parents, at whose wedding I had the honor to serve as Best Man, settled in Alberta, both of them now with large Canadian families of their own. My youngest godson, whose parents I also knew here in Germany [...]
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As a knee-jerk journalist of the compulsive-communicator type, I’ve automatically followed this tragi-farce closely, and thus done a lot of your homework for you. Offhand I can’t recall any recent scandal, political or otherwise, that’s provided the American media with such tasty fodder for a comparable feeding frenzy. This morning’s Sunday edition of The New [...]
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Mike Rogers of BlogActive, the blogger who originally last October outed Sen. Larry Craig as a closeted homosexual, has updated his own story in a telephone interview on Ed Schultz’s television program. Rogers plugs a previous story in The Idaho Statesman on August 28th for which Dan Pokey interviewed more than 300 people - and [...]
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Immediately after Japan’s “sneak” (ha!) attack against Pearl Harbor, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt damned December 7th, 1941 as “a day that will live in infamy”.
I submit that his eloquent terminology also applies, for all time, to that entire abominable era in American history when the country’s administration totally forgot F.D.R.’s earlier assurance that “We [...]
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It should surprise no one familiar with her writings that as soon as decently possible after her so casual, offhand invitation to stop in for a drink the next time I found myself in her Manhattan neighborhood around that time of the afternoon, I did just happen to find myself around Madison Avenue and the upper [...]
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