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...early-morning fantasy may look quite a bit like Elizabeth Taylor. But few could go on, as did Richard Burton when he saw the latest photograph of Liz: "I will reach out with my hand and find the reality of the dream woman. She exists, and lo and behold, she is alive. She is warm. She responds. She murmurs. She weeps. She is wild. She is dangerous. But sometimes, like this photograph, she will come running at me with all the beauty of the unmistakable tide coming in on the rough shore. And I lie there like a rock...
Most psychologists have simply ignored the process of aging. Says Harvard's Erik Erikson: "It is astonishing to behold how (until quite recently and with a few notable exceptions) Western psychology has avoided looking at the whole of life. As our world image is a one-way street to never-ending progress, interrupted only by small and big catastrophes, our lives are to be one-way streets to success - and sudden oblivion." But lately Erikson and oth,er psychiatrists have become interested in all stages of man's development, and the "aging" that goes on at every stage...
...scandal of The Lady of Monza is scarcely worth a footnote in the history of the 17th century church-or in the annals of cinema. An aristocratic nun of Monza, Italy (Anne Heywood), is raped by the villainous landowner Gian Paolo (Antonio Sabato). Behold, she likes it -as do many of her colleagues in the convent. Soon Gian Paolo and the priest, Don Arrigoni (Hardy Kruger), are enjoying the favors of novices, nuns and the prioress. In the denouement the nun of Monza, for her sins, is sealed alive in a dungeon. So was the incident at Monza until...
...have to be kidding. The folder tells us majestically that Chauncey Winston Minot VII was director of this, president of that...etc...etc., but not where they stand on anything. The alumni think they're reading somebody's resume, mark their X's...and lo and behold...two-thirds of Harvard's ruling body has sideburns down to their knees...
...romantic: June 2?, 184?. It came to pass in the reign of Simon the King, that the Pierians did meet in the tabernacle. And ?? a voice was heard saying. Let us go serenading-and they lifted up their voice as one man and they said. Let its go. And behold we went to the city of the Philistines, and did serenade their daughters, and came home about the third hour. And the game of the Pieriuns did was exceeding great, and did reach at the places round about Cambridge...