Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...40th Broadway score, and Producer Alexander Cohen raised $1.5 million to put it on. Based on the 1944 Broadway hit by John van Druten, Mama recounts the struggles of the Hansons, who are poor Norwegian immigrants in San Francisco. The play is intentionally sentimental, a celebration of family life. When the new production opened in Philadelphia in March, critics panned it. Too episodic, with a weak story line, they complained...
DIED. Colonel Arthur ("the Bull") Simons, 60, legendary veteran of World War II and the Viet Nam War, who was once described by an admiring John Wayne as someone who plays in "real life the role I play in the movies"; of a heart attack; in Dallas. Green Beret Commander Simons won the Distinguished Service Cross in 1970 after flawlessly leading a helicopter raid on a heavily guarded P.O.W. camp near Hanoi only to discover to his chagrin that there were no Americans there to be rescued. Last February the retired colonel led a more fruitful rescue mission on behalf...
...turn-of-the-century essay, "The Most Prevalent Form of Degradation in Erotic Life," retains the power to shock to this day. The father of psychoanalysis argued gloomily that most men are driven to debase their sex partners. Perhaps worse, he said, they are often attracted to women they consider inferior...
...role, says Stoller, requires a victim. In real life the partner is supposed to play the part so that the hurt child can become a victorious adult in his sexual fantasies. It is a kind of theater in which the adult again and again conquers childhood fears. Says Stoller: "Triumph, rage, revenge, fear, anxiety, risk are all condensed into one complex buzz called 'sexual excitement.' " In Stoller's view, that buzz has an even harsher component: sadomasochism, the deriving of pleasure from inflicting or experiencing pain. As he puts it, "My hunch is that the desire...
...facing things?"). Though A.P.A. President-elect Stone sent his evaluation on to Soviet Psychiatrist Andrei Snezhnevsky, who had encouraged the American tests, the findings are not likely to end Soviet psychiatric abuses. Snezhnevsky dismissed the results as a "misdiagnosis," a consequence of "not knowing all the features of community life in [Grigorenko's] native land...