Word: extraverts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Extravert. When he graduated from high school in 1951, at 17, Van headed for Manhattan and a scholarship at Juilliard. Russian-born Pianist and Juilliard Teacher Rosina Lhevinne answered a knock at her studio door one day to find it filled with Van's rawboned frame. "Honey," he announced, "Ah'm goin' to study with you." It was the first time she had heard the name Cliburn, but she invited him in and asked him to play. Says Mrs. Lhevinne: "Right then I said. 'This is an unbelievable talent.' His mother had taught him very...
Safety in Humor. Can any man be safe from involuntary confession or conversion? A few may, says Dr. Sargant guardedly. But not the "average man" or the well-adjusted extravert-he is already a conformist and will be more suggestible than other subjects. Neither does it do any good to be openly hostile; by the ultraparadoxical reaction, the most violent anti-Communists are as susceptible to brainwashed conversion as those originally friendly to Communism. The man best able to resist, says Dr. Sargant, is likely to be a husky, phlegmatic type with a good sense of humor...
...score for the movie On the Waterfront, some critics heard a new note in Bernstein's music, a curiously piercing purity that seemed to burst from a hot core of originality. Extravert Bernstein needs the outside inspiration of a theme, a script, a plot to be at his best ? which suggests that he is at his best in the musical theater. "I am the logical man," Bernstein himself has said, "to write the great American opera...
Adler came closer to this cosmic ex perience. He called it "social feeling," and through it "gained a profound and intimate connection with life." This, suggests Progoff, sprang from his extravert nature, just as his theory about "organ inferiority" leading to compensation, and often overcompensation, must have been derived from his childhood. (Adler's earliest memory was of himself as an ailing, rachitic two-year-old, bandaged like a mummy, immobile on a park bench while his elder brother bounced around showing off his prowess.) A disciple of Freud until he broke with him in 1911, Adler insisted that...
...regular guy.'' On a visit to school, he urges Tom to get himself a crew cut like the rest of the fellows, forces him to give up the part of Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal. He begs Tom's housemaster (Leif Erikson), a hearty extravert whose biceps are bigger than his hatband, to make a man of the boy. The only person who really knows Tom and likes him. though, is the housemaster's wife (Deborah Kerr. no kin to John). In the end. when Tom has been driven to suicidal desperation...