Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Introspection: Vicki Rubin and Lydia Sargent try unsuccessfully to invent a personal form of dance to express their inner thoughts. Working with a company untrained in even the most basic modern dance forms, even the two pieces in the program which are drawn from a recognizable style ("Yearning" uses tap dancing) or on a communicable idea ("Taking a Walk" uses interesting combinations of men and women taking strolls together) don't work. May 1 at 8 p.m. at 15 Newbury Street in Boston. Tickets...
...they may be for the candidates, the primaries serve a function beyond winnowing presidential contenders: they probe and test the American mood. There is in that mood a disturbing negative attitude toward politics and politicians. Princeton's Opinion Research Corp. finds that only 30% of those polled express "high trust and confidence" in "the office of the presidency," and only 20% have high trust in Congress. "We've got a disbelieving mood," observes Harry O'Neill, executive vice president of Opinion Research Corp. "People are upset about a lot of problems, and they don't give...
...Although it seems less revolutionary now that it did in the early '70s, this section, like the "Sexuality" chapter, still grabs the women who read it for the first time. Throughout the book, women find experiences included in the presentation similar to their own, a feeling another woman has expressed that coincides with one they could not themselves express. There's a lot of information here, too, about where to look for medical advice if you're not satisfied with their informal presentation...
Though the children have had a great deal of exposure to education, athletics and the arts, they were not enouraged to think independently or to express their own feelings. Instead of relying on their own inner resources or autonomous decisions, they behaved with complete compliance to authority. When puberty demanded independence of the obedient anorexic child, he turned, Bruch writes, "to indiscriminate negativism...
...Children's Hospital, Masland and Piazza have found that their patients come from close-knit, economically comfortable homes and that they suffer from a "fear of growing up." Piazza says the families are usually "so close-knit that the child hasn't really been able to express herself, to feel autonomous. There is a desire to stay small, to be cared for by this close-knit family." Parents feel guilty because their child will not eat, and meals become battles. Therefore the therapy at Children's focuses on the entire family...