Word: hebb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jacques Wolfe, 55, composer of such famed songs as Shortnin' Bread, Glory Road, and Gwine to Hebb'n, is a man with strong feelings about "real American opera." He is convinced that it won't develop until a lot of traditional "operatic hogwash" goes down the drain. His prediction: American opera will settle in a style "somewhere between Porgy and Bess and South Pacific. Let's face it, the popular song is the American idiom." Last week Rumanian-born Composer Wolfe was illustrating his point in a theater off Broadway with a little production called Mississippi...
Despite claims of Boston censors that books containing "allusions to sexual intercourse are detrimental to the morals of the citizens of Boston," Donald O. Hebb, visiting lecturer on Clinical Psychology, said yesterday that "reading sexy novels may be useful for mental hygiene...
...Hebb claimed that sex education in the normal home is bad. Parents are leery of broaching the subject to their adolescent children. Reading such novels may at least prevent the children's picking up the wrong ideas on the street...