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...emotional disturbances," Coon continues, "which we meet so frequently in college students appear 'prima facie' to have the same more or less serious, intractable character commonly ascribed to the classical neuroses, but I think there is evidence to indicate that they are in many instances really troubles of a less stubborn and persistent nature...
...owes him 10% of her earnings since he launched her in 1947 (when she scaled almost 200 Ibs.), slim (5 ft. 7 in., 132 Ibs.) Maria will make her Metropolitan Opera debut late this month. No process servers greeted her at New York's Idlewild Airport, and Prima Donna Callas fell happily into the arms of her papa, a Bronx pharmacist...
...next number was the traditional Pas de Deux, this time from the third act of Coppelia. Intended to give the prima ballerina and danseur noble a chance to demonstrate their technical virtuosity, it succeeded only in showing that Miss Kaye and Kriza, though excellent dancers are not suited for such restraining numbers...
Virtuoso: The reward of the instrumental virtuoso in glory and cash is beyond that of any other honest profession (except that of the prima donna...
...Prima Donna: The word has, in the mouths of the more thinking members of the musical public, taken on a half-humorous, half-caustic meaning . . . (The child who in an examination paper misspelt the term Prim Madonna was very young...