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...little boy was timorous, overattached to his mother, and the victim of two badgering sisters. Now, say academy staffers, he is "quite a tiger." (A few days before socking his father, he had flailed away at a sister.) The transformation is typical of changes wrought by Sumner ("Mike") Burg, an unpretentious man whose lack of professional credentials has not kept him from winning the respect of psychoanalysts and psychiatrists. Using his remarkable rapport with insecure children and adults, Mike builds their self-confidence by teaching them to use their bodies more effectively in individual and team sports...
...Richard Burg helm...
...first production is entirely self contained except that a Brecht play is being used. A foot is in the door here too. The music was written by Bradley Burg. who is presently writing a musical with Eric Bentley; it is Mr. Bentley's translation of A Man's A Man that is being used...
...were only dealing with symbols. They sent Dartmouth students to jail for 30 days, and they fired on young people in Berkeley with shotguns filled with buckshot and birdshot and rock salt, and they killed one man--a white man. Black men died in colleges before, at Orange-burg last year and before and since. But hen they killed a white man, which was turning against their own. The game is over now. While it lasted, it was our own, what we did, our education, our exhilaration. They said we were zealous and concerned; that satisfied their need for explanations...
...tall) and bugged for autographs. As early as 1960, he found that he could no longer cover presidential primaries because bystanders were paying more attention to him than to the candidates. "One of the pains of this job," he said in an interview with TIME Writer Richard Burg-heim, "is that you spend one-third of your time being a celebrity...