Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans talk, scream, confront, jump, paint, dance, strip, tickle and grope their way toward emotional fulfillment. They are sampling one or more of the 200 or so therapies and countless pseudo therapies that are now being peddled in the U.S. as panaceas for unhappiness, anxiety or worse. At one end of this therapeutic spectrum are such exuberant exercises in self-help as biofeedback and Transcendental Meditation; at the other end, close-order drill for the psyche, like est. All but trampled by this stampede toward satisfaction lies the battered body of the medical specialty that once held the exclusive franchise...
...Near the end of her 20-min. mad scene, Miss Havisham cries out, "I am tired!" There is a derisive titter from the audience. They have sympathy for Soprano Rita Shane, who plays Miss Havisham. She has flung her voice valiantly through trills, runs, arpeggios, and sung paragraph upon paragraph of words that dwarf the great mad scene in Lucia di Lammermoor. But the audience is tired too, because this kind of listening, when most of the words are unintelligible, is also hard work...
...action is right now," Joe Tyndall, who is pushing for a referendum banning nuclear power in Massachusetts said yesterday. "We thought we were going to wait until 1982. With the movie (The China Syndrome) and now the accident, it became clear that now is the time. We want to end nuclear power in 19 months," he said...
...spokesmen for the Union of Concerned Scientists said his group was calling for an evacuation of the area surrounding the leaking Harrisburg reactor. "Some of that radioactivity may end up here, and if it does there are problems: 40 million people live between here and Harrisburg, and New York City is only 115 miles away," he said...
...rent control opponents, led by the Cambridge Property Owners and Taxpayers Association, testified in favor of two house resolutions before the state legislature's Joint Committee on Local Affairs. The first resolution would phase out rent control while the second would institute vacancy de-control, which would end rent control as tenants leave apartments...