Word: neuroticisms
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POOR BITOS hinges on the visceral French political sport of right-baits-left. With more intellectual acuity than passion Jean Anouilh goes back to Robespierre to perform a masterly autopsy on the revolutionary mentality. As Bitos-Robespierre, Donald Pleasence is phenomenally good THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT, by Bill Manhoff...
The Owl and the Pussycat, by Bill Manhoff. A verbal slugfest between a man and a woman is the contemporary form of the mating dance. The man may not want to go to bed with the girl, as the hero of this play doesn't, but he realizes that...
Marriage is not a "career" complete with vocational files and applications. It is not to be accepted or rejected at the close of one's college years like law school, nor evaluated in terms of what advantages it will afford you since hopefully it exists for mutual benefit. Moreover, she...
On the mythic level, the play is more opaque. Two characters seem more like gods than people, gods of the modern mind. Palmer, the psychoanalyst, is the contemporary god of reason, restoring order amid emotional chaos. Honor Klein, the anthropologist, is the primordial goddess of instinct, violence, and what D...
Dr. Kenneth Binkley, the zoo veterinarian, is pessimistic. His diagnosis: "Single male primates raised from babyhood in human homes are highly neurotic. Bobo has human inhibitions-he simply will not make an exhibition of himself in public."