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...session was tense but unspectacu Phillips' boycott cut down attendance per cent of the eligible membership, hapman said this was "high for the Over a dozezn members were re entrance by the credentials com...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: HYRC Stings Phillips; Convention Opens | 4/15/1961 | See Source »

...acknowledged?people develop an irrational aversion to some act or object seemingly unconnected with their anxiety. Phobias seem to occur in dazzling profusion: Blakiston's New Gould Medical Dictionary lists 217 of them (see box). More prevalent but less generally recognized as cover-ups for anxiety are com pulsive forms of behavior and addictions to alcohol and narcotics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Anatomy of Angst | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...lmpromptu de Versailles and Les Fourberies de Scapin (by Molière) opened the Comédie Française' three-week visit at the City Center by happily passing up fanfare for fun. With such full-length classics as Molière's Tartuffe and Racine's Britannicus to follow, a troupe that matches polish with perkiness leaped in with minor Molière and made it seem, in a dreary season, a major evening even for those with shaky French. The two works, moreover, make a pleasant contrast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Old Plays in Manhattan | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

...actors in a rival troupe, a lot more at acting itself. In L'lmpromptu, Molière personally directs the rehearsal, sketches actors' roles, silhouettes their shortcomings, and is now friendly, now irritable, now ironic amid travestied types of people and exaggerated modes of acting. With the Comédie Française players bringing a sense of style to their very distortions of it and making every baroque French character a bright character part, L'Impromptu is a neatly controlled romp, a briskly ceremonious curtain raiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Old Plays in Manhattan | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

...owners quickly organized, raised $10,000 within four min utes to fight the cemetery. In the battle so far, Forest Lawn has stayed one step ahead. When the homeowners began to circulate petitions, they discovered affable Forest Lawn petition gatherers had already covered the same houses. At the first com mission hearing, some 200 West Covinians showed up promptly at 9 a.m. - only to find all the seats taken by Forest Lawn employees who had arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Plots Thicken | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

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