Word: halliday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dull. Mr. Keith, as Henry IV, acts with brilliant, sometimes incredible, imagination and control. At one point in the play, he held the audience's complete attention for at least fifteen minutes. The Brattle Company, no doubt inspired by working with such an actor, was in fine form. Bryant Halliday, Will West, Jerry, Kilty and a guest actress, Kathryn Eames, were especially good. Robert O'Hearn's set was extremely impressive-certainly the best work of his I have seen. And Miles Morgan's lighting was very skillful...
Featured roles of Troilus and Cressida will be played by Bryant Halliday '49 and Jan Farrand, a student at Boston University. Other main parts will go to Robert F. Keahey '50, Hector; Jerome T. Kilty '50, Ulysses; and Albert E. Marre 1G, Thersites...
...Causes. Religion's decline after the 1870s helped increase man's natural feeling of insecurity, and is thus a cause as well as a symptom, Dr. Halliday believes. Western society also suffered from changes in child-rearing, he thinks. Dr. Halliday looks skeptically at the flush toilet, and deplores its leading to too-early toilet training, hence frustration. The decline in breast-feeding and the general use of baby carriages, he thinks, robbed children of needed, reassuring contact with their mothers. Many changes were good physiologically, but bad psychologically...
...Cure. "It is neither sense nor science to concentrate our thoughts and endeavors on the physical aspects of nature to the neglect of its spiritual or psychological aspects," writes Dr. Halliday; "it is by comprehension of these alone that man can consciously save himself from further social catastrophe and even destruction...
...Halliday's psychosocial medicine would include "biopolitics." He gives a practical tip: avoid political leaders who themselves have recurring psychosomatic illnesses like skin troubles, stomach ulcers, rheumatism...