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Hardy Kreuger is competent as the young professor, but severely limited by the narrowness of colloquial Hamlets, who, it seems, are not permitted the exuberant swings of mood of their renaissance ancestors. Director Kautner is a victim of the modern fallacy that complicated people are incapable of being drab and...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: The Rest Is Silence | 12/12/1961 | See Source »

The men and women who surround Claudia are made real partly through painting extreme characteristics that are easily sustained. But the interplay which fills the plot makes some extremes much more plausible. Claudia's friend Anna, who is engaged to Sandro, has an apparently neurotic desire to get away from...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, AT THE FENWAY UNTIL WEDNESDAY | Title: L'Avventura | 11/4/1961 | See Source »

Throughout his remarkably productive career, Dmitry Shostakovich has produced two entirely different kinds of music: "decadent, bourgeois, neurotic'' works that stand in the first rank of contemporary composition, and ideologically pure, "democratic" works that stand almost nowhere at all. Ever since 1948, when he was chastised by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Backward from Decadence | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

These neurotic goof-offs are more amusing than they have any right to be-but the one who should be the funniest of them all is less amusing than he ought to be. The fault in Playwright Gethers' farce lies in its ill-conceived hero, a hulking, preposterously implausible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Silly Psychos | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

Selection of a student body based solely on high school grades, test data, and Predicted Rank List standings, Bender said, could turn the College into a collection of brittle, neurotic super-intellectuals.

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Bender's Final Report on Admissions Warns Against 'Elitism,' Increasing Cost of College | 9/30/1961 | See Source »

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