Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jung's Nightmare. Langham is performing an act of reviving violence. He is doing to the polite 19th century conventions of Greek tragedy what directors like Peter Brook have done to the polite 19th century conventions of Shakespeare. Pseudo-traditional versions of Oedipus are staged as refined pageants. Directors assign masks, write long program notes about catharsis, and advise their puzzled Oedipuses to express hubris, which generally leaves them looking like damaged Roman coins. Langham has cut through the decorum of Greek revival to present Oedipus as a nightmare by Jung...
...KROC, 70, Chicago, chairman and chief executive officer of McDonald's Corp., Oak Brook, Ill. Gifts: Nixon...
...Extension of the MBTA subway line out to Fresh Pond or another point near the Alewife Brook Parkway. Traffic studies--largely complete--show that most Mass Ave traffic has at least one endpoint in Cambridge, making extended rapid transit feasible...
When three new patrolmen were hired in a Chicago suburb, the police chief had an uneasy feeling that there was something wrong with one of them. So he sent all three for evaluation to a private firm called Government Personnel Consultants in Oak Brook, Ill., where they were gone over by a psychologist and a lie-detector specialist. The chiefs instincts were correct. The man whom he had suspected confessed that only a week before he was hired he had committed rape. The case was on the town's list of unsolved crimes...
...less than 930 colored slides of the landscape and 236 black and white prints of the indigenous peoples. Not that the museum did not give thought to the shaping of this multitude. Such famed photographers as Paul Petricone and Carl Seimbab selected the prints, Marie Cosindas and John Brook the colored work...