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The evening ripples with laughter, a renewed credit to Williams' fluent comic sense. Yet the undertone of the play is prevailingly sad. The characters are sterile in their neurotic self-concern, people who cannot feed each other the simplest joys of life because each is so busy devouring himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: The Seven Descents of Myrtle | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

We were also hired, of course, to teach. But at the inception of the program, when the Harvard people were in Cambridge and the Shaw people were in Raleigh, the tutors were regarded only in their objective function. Only when we arrived on campus did we become racial threats. Only...

Author: By Marion E. Bodian, | Title: White Harvard Students Tutor At A Southern Negro College | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

Now, there is clearly no rational reason to can a tomato; in fact, tomatoes can be bought more cheaply fresh. We see in the canned tomato an example of the purely symbolic action: the benefits of canning a tomato are entirely psychic. And there must be a market for this...

Author: By Jay Cantor, | Title: Taming Tomatoes | 3/13/1968 | See Source »

Passion and primitivism are also part of the Haitian people's strength. In a Haitian church on Sunday morning, they make no pretense of wealth or sophistication. They don't suffer mal du siecle, they aren't neurotic, introspective, or brooding. They come to church to share the little they...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: A View of Haiti | 3/9/1968 | See Source »

"His effort in 1934 to establish a psychiatric service in a general hospital was a tremendously important departure from the traditional treatment of neurotic patients in mental institutions," said Dr. Oliver Cope, Professor of Surgery and a long time associate of Cobb. "It took a great deal of courage to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cobb Dies at 80; Early Leader In Mental Research | 2/26/1968 | See Source »

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