Word: neuroticisms
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PETER LUKE'S Hadrian VII is a mediocre play with one outstanding central character. Structured like The Wizard of Oz, with a plot line that could have been borrowed from Putney Swope, this comic fantasy has more possibilites as soliloquy than as drama. Frederick William Rolfe, English recluse and neurotic...
The opening scene of the play, creaky and oldfashioned, establishes Rolfe's "identity" like the opening shots of Kansas in The Wizard of Oz; then, we enter a dream-world. The central characters in Rolfe's real life (his creditors, his landlady, his crude Irish friend, the tottery old scrubwoman...
This all sounds potentially bizarre and frightening, but Peter Luke and the director Jean Gascon have somehow drained the neurotic fire from Rolfe's dream and made his bitterness seem laughable. When we return to reality at the end of the play (the paper-mache reality of Rolfe's Cheapside...
Do blacks have special emotional problems? Medical science has no division known as black psychiatry; the psyche cannot be segregated. The best psychiatric opinion holds that the same kinds of emotional problems are found among virtually all the world's peoples though with varying frequency. For the American Negro...
Since the white man has been the perpetrator of violence more often than the black, why does he persist in projecting his own misdeeds upon his victims? Poussaint explains: "Individuals who are deeply prejudiced frequently use this paranoid mechanism to avoid facing painful truths about unacceptable impulses and fears within...