Word: know
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late last Saturday night, Jeremy Leven began to lock up The Light Company Theatre. He did not know that it was the last time he would be going through the nightly ritual. "Say, could you add one more thing," he asked. "I'd appreciate it if you'd mention that I hope people don't wait to see what the next performance might bring." He smiled again. "After all, there might...
...Rector of Justin, Louis Auchincloss, a New York aristocrat and a practicing attorney, makes novel writing sound only slightly more difficult than drawing a will. He acknowledges the existence of problems and flounderings, but they all seem to succumb to his analytic brain. In addition, he appears to know just where he stands: "I am neither a satirist nor a cheerleader," he says with cool assurance. "I am strictly an observer." An honorable position honestly stated, it should quiet those critics who want an Auchincloss novel to be more than a well-crafted, highly polished portrait of the world...
...throughout history, there is one phenomenon that science has never been able to explain: that is the mysterious energy flow of the body that has been documented in cultures in all parts of the world. Something exists in us, and we do not know what it is; it is enough to come in contact with...
Most of the respondents have reasonably serious phobias. "They know as well as we do what the problem is. It's not some general neurosis, but a narrowly specific fear. Our approach," he said, "will be behavior therapy, not psychotherapy. In other words we don't put people on a couch and bring in a bearded German doctor with a notebook...
Keeney added that if the seminar had been given for credit this year, its syllabus would have included more pre-World War II writers since the seminar instructors know these authors best. The seminar would also have been more rigorous. As it is, the course will be very loosely structured, on the order of a graduate seminar. Students can suggest whatever topics if discussion they wish. "We're as much babes in the woods as any of the students on the subject," Keeney said...