Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris, after seeing Rousseau's house, they discussed his Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men. In London, where they were scheduled to see the Old Vic perform Hamlet, they found that the Old Vic had just closed for the month. They "did" Hamlet anyway in their hotel, and somewhere along the line squeezed in Canterbury Cathedral and a lecture on Chaucer. Finally, last week, they groggily got ready to come home. What had they learned? "Tell you the truth," said one traveler, "you get so that you see everything in half a daze...
Kinsey graduated from South Orange High School at 16 with top honors. Yearbook editors put a wildly unprophetic line from Hamlet under his picture: "Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither...
...colorful knitted caps, in leather hats bedecked with coins, in high white hats of straw, 150,000 stolid Indian farmers and miners poured into an open field near the 1½-mile-high hamlet of Ucareña one day last week. Five airplanes appeared in the brassy sky, swooped down to a landing. Out of one plane stepped President Victor Paz Estenssoro, the bespectacled onetime economics professor whom the Indians call "our father." In an open car he rode to the field, where Indians greeted him with thumping drums and shrill flutes...
...Today's white hope is tomorrow's black sheep," he remarked when he was 37. "I seriously advise all serious composers to die at the age of 37." His production, always slow, fell off sharply, although he turned out excellent film scores for Laurence Olivier's Hamlet and Henry...
...worked prodigiously, conducting analyses, 'researching psychological mechanisms (he coined the psychiatric term "rationalization"), writing scores of learned books and papers (e.g., on early female sexuality, nightmares, Hamlet, folklore). At the drop of an inhibition, he would hie to Vienna and go off on walking-talking tours with Freud. It was Jones who in 1928 won over the British Medical Association to a policy which recognizes trained Freudians as the only true analysts. And it was Jones who braved Nazi cops in 1938 to bring the ailing Freud, with his wife and daughter Anna, from Vienna to England. Since...