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...peering from the lip. Now a birdlike, tattered little man of 50, Burra rivals his compatriot Francis Bacon (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953) as a shock dispenser. His latest collection of watercolors, on view last week at Boston's Swetzoff Gallery, bowled over even the blasé Brahmins of Beacon Hill and led the Boston Herald to call him "a poet of the underworld...
...session was unique because Spring had ordered the students' arrest Tuesday night after he spotted them dropping water bombs out of fraternity house windows along Beacon...
Jean Cocteau's first English language movie has had its title routinely sexified from Les Parents Terribles to Intimate Relations, but current visitors to the Beacon Hill will be glad to find that Cocteau, no matter what title he uses, well merits his reputation for unorthodox screenplay...
...Radar Beacons. The Civil Aeronautics Authority has tested and approved radar beacons for use on civilian airports. Most big airports already have surveillance radar beacons that display all airplanes in the vicinity as moving "blips" on their scopes, but when traffic is heavy, it is often hard to tell which blip stands for which airplane. The beacon system leaves no doubt. As each airplane comes into a control area, it is called by voice radio and assigned a "code pulse." Then the "transponder" carried by the plane answers when the beacon at the airport sends that particular code. Since...
Emotionally Charged Lights. Georgia-born Psychologist Enneis, 34, studied psychodrama under its originator, Dr. Jacob L. Moreno, at Beacon, N.Y., was early impressed by the effect of lights on the actors. Where a director uses lights in a conventional theater to harmonize with the mood of the scene, Enneis found that he could control or even create emotions with different colored lights. His most vivid example: a staff assistant was acting under the emotionally charged red lights when a woman patient (going through a transference relationship) attacked her. Onstage, Enneis tried vainly to separate them, but an alert observer flicked...