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...Dexter M. Buccili Hurley...
...DIED. Dexter M. Bullard, 83, psychiatrist and medical director from 1931 to 1969 of the Chestnut Lodge mental hospital in Rockville, Md., which pioneered in the use of psychoanalytic treatment for psychotic patients, instead of custodial care; in Rockville. Chestnut Lodge, founded in 1910 by Bullard's father, Dr. Ernest Bullard, was the setting for the 1964 novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, by onetime Patient Joanne Greenberg...
...actor on stage and screen, Michael Moriarty, 40, knows the sting of critics' barbs. But Moriarty, unlike most performers, can retaliate in kind. Last week he starred in a tart, off-Broadway monologue called Dexter Creed, written by himself. Moriarty portrays an acerbic, dyspeptic critic loosely modeled on John Simon, 56, the acerbic, dyspeptic drama critic for New York magazine. Simon considers himself an arbiter of high artistic standards. And clearly Dexter Creed doesn't come up to them. In his review of the play this week, Simon growls: "Cruel and unusual punishment." For whom? The playgoer...
...Dexter Lewis '56, who was captain of the lacrosse team for two years, said "athletics of Harvard. . .are always kept perspective" and that athletes here are driven only by "a pressure from within." During his undergraduate days. Lewis said. "We knew we were athletes but we knew we were at Harvard for a far more important reason--for an education...
...victims promptly rise up to rebuke and terrify him. Dexter has taken a sunny approach to this nightmare. Harassed frogs are still genial; abused cats take a philosophical view. In L'Enfant Hockney creates his richest, most brilliant sets and French Conductor Manuel Rosenthal coaxes the most subtle performance from the Met orchestra. It has been said that the Ravel work is such a perfect distillation of orchestral and vocal art that it resists dramatization, that no physical embodiment of it is possible. Perhaps.Yet the Met does justice to the masterpiece with an approach that is both witty...