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...Rife, 41, a child psychiatrist from Vermont, reacts quickly at one end of the Victoria Road Arena and makes a save with his gloved hand. Jon Reiff, 38, a law professor from Ohio, spins twice chasing a puck but does not fall. George Wolbert, 56, an attorney for Shell Oil, narrowly misses a body check. These men have made their way to the Can/Am Hockey School in Guelph to play for the unvarnished joy of sport. They earn no money playing. Indeed, they pay tuition to hone their skills...
...sighings from the White House. To be sure, the President did have other reasons; he fears, for one thing, that abortion may become merely belated contraception. Certainly, responsible people should take greater care to practice contraception in the first place. And surely it is too casual to say, as Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz has said, that abortion "should be available [in the first two or three months] in the same way as, say, an operation for the beautification of a nose." Besides, pregnancy is not a disease, except in a metaphorical sense, for those whose lives are blighted...
...expert who regarded the verdict as plausible was Dr. Emanuel Tanay. a forensic psychiatrist who normally testifies for defendants but in this case aided the prosecution. Said he: "A crime like this could only be committed by a doctor or a nurse, somebody who had access, looked reasonable, acted reasonably. This was a senseless crime, and so by definition there was no easily recognizable motive. Even if we assume the defendants did it, they themselves might not be able to tell you why they...
Based on Joanne Greenberg's 1964 novel, it gives an earnest, intelligent account of Deborah Blake, a teen-ager who returns from suicidal fantasy to a precarious willingness to give life another try. It is a success story, but a measured, qualified one (the title line is the psychiatrist's reply when Deborah complains that reality is painful and difficult compared with the security of the imaginary desert gods who rule her sick mind). The same thing can be said of the movie: it leaves one feeling respectful but not deeply impressed or moved...
Part of the reason is a studied even-handedness that smacks more of documentary than drama. Deborah (Kathleen Quinlan) is blessed with an extraordinarily sympathetic and skillful psychiatrist, Dr. Fried (Bibi Andersson), but the other psychiatrists are portrayed as stodgy and rigid. Most of the patients in the disturbed ward are worse off than Deborah (Sylvia Sidney, Signe Hasso and Susan Tyrrell, among others, have a high old time playing them), but one-who befriends Deborah-is better. One of the male nurses is brutal, but another is kind...