Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kramer has mixed feelings about the value of this perverse group therapy. Professionals talk a lot about the money, as if that were motive enough. But Kramer knows better. What justifies it for him finally is the comradeship and sense of celebration when the pounding stops-the feeling Victorian families must have had at Christmastime. The charade ends with Daddy happy for the moment, and a new trophy on the shelf: an unprecedented third world championship mounted on a field of broken collarbones. This psychic manipulation complements the military planning of the Packer High Command. Kramer starts on Tuesday...
...balloon up into the air with his head. Around him were a couple of small children, playing with balloons of their own, and several young men and women, also in leotards. While Ted bounced the enormous balloon off his head, the young dancers--members of the Boston Conservatory Dance Group--did sit ups and stretches. In the corner of the room near the door, a group of about 50 students, having taken off their shoes and socks, looked on in bewilderment...
...about five minutes, everybody breathed -- standing on their tiptoes with their arms held high over their heads when they inhaled, collapsing down to the floor when they exhaled. Then, with Ted leading the way, the group formed into a circle and began to march around the room, alternately very stiff and very relaxed. Over the loud-speaker, a minuette began to play--and at that point, the first performance of Cambridge's Free Dance Theatre began in earnest...
...they were happy, then thankful, then obsessed, then lonely, and then sad. "I can't seem to do this," said a tall boy in corduroy pants and a bright polka dot shirt. "There isn't enough space. I wish we were on a football field." The leader of the group tried to help him, while the others paired off to express themselves...
Some time later, when most of the groups had degenerated back into the love mounds out of which they had formed, Ted turned on the lights, announced the beginning of the "free dance," turned off the lights, and turned on a colored strobe. Some fast music began to play. In the strobe, to the music, worn out and relaxed by the exercises of the first half of the evening, everybody danced. They danced happily, passionately, playfully, romantically, with Ted leading them all. After an hour and a half, many were still dancing, and as one group of students turned...