Word: latent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn out a funny, wryly perceptive comedy like Marty. When the moral preceptor is in command, the result is likely to be a chalk-dusty lecture like The Passion of Josef D., with its dreary analysis of Stalin's rise to power. Chayefsky's latest work, The Latent Heterosexual, which opened at the Dallas Theater Center last week, is an unsuccessful attempt to weld the two Paddys. But the amusing eye-catcher of a title is only dimly related to the play, which is a symbolic satire on a rather threadbare theme: the materialistic corruption...
HENRIK: They are divine, they can divine. They sense imminent death and latent power. What finer efflorescence than a woman free of duty's tyranny...
...unheralded and unsung, is truly awesome. Any man who can take a hundred California teenagers and inspire them to attempt the finest music in the symphonic repertoire and cover themselves with glory in brilliant performance deserves his share of limelight and applause. That a tremendous capacity for good lies latent in our oft-maligned American youth has again been demonstrated for us by this man from Bombay...
...forced back upon the word spiritual, but he insists that this does not require a religious connotation. No psychiatrist, he points out, can prescribe religion for an irreligious patient. At the same time, just as emphatically, he warns psychiatrists against suppressing or ignoring whatever religious feelings, overt and latent, a patient may have...
...singing group known as the Apocalypse, one member of which has just been drafted. Viola, calling herself Charlie, fills in for him; when Orsino, here known as Orson, feels himself falling in love with what he assumes is a boy, he consults a psychology book to read up on latent homosexuality...