Word: psychics
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...apparent that Albert has conceptions of the theater for which our old friend The Proposition may not be the best vehicle. With Albert directing a program of psychic betterment, with the cast believing in the show, and with the new dynamic of improvisational theater to involve the audience, something big should happen...
...theater to relax after a hard day's work. We are concerned with the spectator who has genuine spiritual needs and who really wishes, through confrontation with the performance, to analyze himself. We are concerned with the spectator who does not stop at an elementary stage of psychic integration, content with his own petty, geometrical, spiritual stability, knowing exactly what is good and what is evil, and never in doubt. For it was not to him that El Greco, Thomas Mann and Dostoyevsky spoke, but to him who undergoes an endless process of self-development, whose unrest...
...Cieslak's body shudders convulsively from head to toe, and few athletes could begin to match the physical suppleness of a cast that seems as fit for dance as drama. At times, the company freezes in still lifes of agony. One is constantly aware of Cieslak's psychic pain, a pain beyond tears, beyond endurance, beyond escape, except by redemption. Religion and drama were once one and in Grotowski's ritual theater they seem, for a few miraculous moments, to be rejoined...
...PATTERN of last month's attack on the Center for International Affairs has been writ large on the streets of Chicago this week. Most of us knew what the Weathermen were planning in Chicago, when and where the days of rage would strike. But no amount of psychic rehearsal could have prepared us for the indiscriminate violence of the Weathermen campaign...
Loretta's daughter, Maureen, also has trouble with men, particularly her stepfather, who nearly beats her to death. The battering reduces the girl to a state of psychic numbness. When her will reasserts itself, she plots to seduce and marry a man "gaunt with normality," who already has a wife and three children. If she can't have a life transformed by love, at least she can have a house and family in the suburbs...