Word: dexterous
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...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...
...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...
...French works, with the umbrella title of Parade. The idea of presenting Satie's slight ballet Parade, Poulenc's absurdist opera buffa Les Mamelles de Tirésias and Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges came from Met Production Adviser John Dexter. The common theme was not World War I (though with effort all the pieces can be connected to it) but the devices of British Artist David Hockney, 43, who presided over the visual aspects of the show. Hockney, noted for his sophisticated, figurative paintings, has done successful productions of The Rake...
...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...
...three men in Tracy's life fail to establish bold personality profiles. As Kittredge, Council provides more sullen bark than bite, Converse's Dexter Haven is more earnest than insouciant, and Herrmann must have studied Stewart at least as carefully as he did the script...