Word: bache
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nina was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in 1935 in Tryon, N.C., the sixth of eight children. Father was a handyman, Mother a Methodist minister. Both were musical, and Nina began taking classical piano lessons at seven. Bach soon became (and remains) her favorite: "There's always a place he's going and he gets there and he comes down gently. That's perfection." In 1953, after a year of study at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music (paid for by friends back home), she landed a $90-a-week job playing piano...
...Placid Marriage: nice cou ples don't fight. Psychologists and marriage counselors know that this ste reotype is not really true, and would probably not be healthy if it were. A sprightly new book called The Intimate Enemy (William Morrow; $7.50), by California Psychologist George R. Bach and Peter Wyden, a Ladies' Home Jour nal editor, strikes a blow for the positive virtues of the Pugnacious Marriage...
Unfortunately, many couples bury their battles, and the ones who do not often fight dirty. Bach, who has a thriving group therapy practice in Beverly Hills, knows "fight-phobic" the games partners they live in play. a shell Many of boring, ritualized "pseudo-intimacy...
...your day, dear?" Wife (pleasantly): "O.K. How was yours?" Husband: "Oh, you know, the usual." When disagreements loom, they take refuge in the newspaper, TV or "etiquette-upmanship," a self-righteous silent treatment rationalized by the thought that self-control is more virtuous than disagreement. Argue Authors Bach and Wyden: "A marriage that operates on the after-you-my-dear-Al-phonse principle may last a lifetime-a lifetime of fake accommodation, monotony, self-deception and contempt...
...first fund-raising event for the Center will be a concert given by the University Choir on March 23. Charles P. Price, preacher to the University, said yesterday that the Choir would perform Bach's St. John's Passion, in memory of Martin Luther King...