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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anyone who can tell the lower-middle from the working class without a scorecard.) In this second offering of the pre-season season at the Charles Playhouse (the season opens later this month), a group of good actors, capable of many fine strokes and perfectly caught inflections, miss just often enough to prevent our believing in the Brooklyn waterfront tenement they are trying to create...
...judgment that the reprimand is deserved is, I regret to say, not altogether unfounded. And evidences supporting it are amply provided by members of our profession who--often speaking in such a way as to appear to represent all of us--have made it plain that they suppose that their profession puts them above the duties and responsibilities which are the usual concomitants of assured rights. Both in their lives and their public pronouncements they have left it open to doubt as to whether they have any local commitments. Yet the free society rests on the postulate that every...
Harvard voters undoubtedly have some sympathy for the rhino romp that marked the Sao Paulo contest. Elections on campus are often conducted in the same sort of spirit, and yield only slightly more fruitful results. Lamont DuPont had thinner skin and a less prominent nose than Carareco, the rhinoceros, but he, too, easily defeated a field of less illustrious candidates. Pogo once roused vigorous support in a local campaign, too vigorous for many. It is good, but a little sad, to commemorate the election of the rhinoceros in another country; for it recalls a day when students here fought...
Motivation also plays an important part in hypnotic reactions. No one can be successfully hypnotized unless he is willing, and in an experiment the subject often is motivated by what Dr. Orne calls "the demand characteristics of the situation." In an experiment, for instance, the subject feels he has to cooperate with the experimenter for "the sake of science," and thus his behavior in trance is motivated by a desire to help the hypnotist...
...Yard moves closer to the killer, the script unfortunately moves closer to propaganda, repeats its brothers-under-the-skin theme so often that the point is blunted. Sapphire is a novel mystery that pulls no punches, but it would have been even better if it had not started swinging with the left...