Word: band
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mental Band-Aids. Founded in January, Ann Arbor's storefront clinic is one of several thousand such emergency-treatment centers now operating throughout the U.S. Under a federal program launched in 1963, this census will expand even further. Their approach to mental illness seems to contradict much of prevailing psychiatric theory. Crisis intervention assumes, for instance, that the deeply disturbed patient can be snatched at the last minute from committable insanity-and that the last moment may be the best time to try. It argues that relief of the immediate symptoms of profound emotional stress is far more urgent...
...manager of Candido magazine, vowed: "The battle has just begun." At the very least, Italian businessmen have seen an impressive sign of small-investor muscle. Other European industrialists cannot write off the incident as a show of Italian emotionalism. On the same day as the Montedison revolt, a determined band of West German shareholders did battle with the directors of the NSU auto manufacturing firm. As a result, they won the promise of a higher price per share for agreeing to merge their firm with a subsidiary of Volkswagen...
...think of because it is so cute a crisis for a starlet to have broken a fingernail. Then she did herself one better. She had a pile of snapshots of herself to go through. I leaned over her shoulder and watched her handle them with the finger with the band...
THERE IS A limit to how much pain a person can take. After a certain point, you must either scream your lungs out or go crazy. Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band pushes both its characters and its audience within inches of that breaking point. It is one of the mammoth achievements in recent American theatrical history...
...While Band is about (in the words of one character) "six tired screaming fairy queens and one anxious queer" at a birthday party, the play neither apologizes for the homosexual nor preaches about his plight in an heterosexual world. Rather, playwright Crowley sucks us into a grimly realistic slice of the gay life to lets us draw our own conclusions...