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...Oedipus Complex, a jolly dentist assures his patient he'll whip out a bad tooth "in a couple of shakes." He takes a couple of shakes; the tooth breaks. "So that's the game, is it?" crows the dentist, still merry as a grig. He assaults the tooth "with something like a buttonhook." Another piece breaks off. "We'll have to saw," cries the delighted dentist. While the tooth is sawed, button-hooked, drilled and shaken, the dentist, dropping his guard for an instant, admits to the patient that he (the dentist) has suffered hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. P.'s Pleasure | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...Drama Group met with Eliot tutors a few weeks ago, shortly after a program had been announced for next year that included "Oedipus Rex," Sheridan's "The Critic," "Henry IV," Parts I & II, Shaw's "Heartbreak House," and "Midsummer Night's Dream...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Drama Group Will Review Next Season's Production Plans | 5/18/1956 | See Source »

...Oedipus Rex" and "The Critic" will be given next fall as planned, but next week's meeting will decide on the rest of the program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Drama Group Will Review Next Season's Production Plans | 5/18/1956 | See Source »

...Group, for example, last week announced a full slate of lower-case titles for its 1956-57 productions and completed casting for two of them. In time such farsighted acts may revolutionize the nature of over-the-summer planning at the College. Presumably, a late-April commitment to play Oedipus in October is more binding than an intention to take Humanities 2, as indicated on a preliminary study card...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apples | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...pleasure from sensation in sexual parts-phallic phase. (Association of sexual gratification with reproduction-genital phase-does not come until sexual maturity.) Beginning about age two, the child's emotional attachment to mother leads to wishes to displace father-Oedipal feelings (the older, more rigid concept of an Oedipus complex is now frowned upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: THEME & VARIATIONS | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

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