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...psych worked. The Belmont got off to such a slow start that in the backstretch Dike loped to a five-length lead. With a half-mile to go, Jockey Braulio Baeza eased Arts and Letters through an opening and went to the front. Jockey Bill Hartack, apparently thrown off stride by the slow early pace, made his bid coming into the homestretch. It was too late. Driving for the wire, Arts and Letters held the lead and won going away by 51 lengths over Majestic Prince, with Dike third. The game little colt picked up first-prize money...
...Psych. Smashing a violin over the head of an onlooker, on the other hand, is an altogether different order of violence-purposeless instead of purposeful. But violin smashing is just what occurred during the current series of events at Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church staged by a group of self-styled "destruction artists." Among the crowd-pleasers: Vienna's Hermann Nitsch, who stuffed his trousers with calves' brains, then dragged the bloody carcass of a lamb around the courtyard. Artist Ralph Ortiz and Judson Gallery Director Jon Hendricks had planned to tear limb from limb two live...
Destruction artists try to draw their esthetic justification on an odd mixture -the theories on aggression propounded by Austrian Naturalist Konrad Lorenz, Aristotle's idea of dramatic catharsis, and pop-psych. "We're all very hostile," says Ortiz. "The guy who beats his kid, the wife who has affairs. But art becomes a place where one can deal with the most chaotic problems without threatening one's emotional and physical well-being." Whatever the merits of destruction art, Ortiz's grasp of psychology is clearly sketchy, at least by Freudian lights. The master taught that both...
...Burk, the grand old man of Eastern rowing, knows his business, and his prediction may be more than an effort to psych Harvard out. It could be close...
...effete, seething schizoid (Rod Steiger) who can kill when he assumes an identity other than his own. But who is he? New York's police assign a green, gawky Jewish detective (George Segal) to find the answer. After eyeballing the first victim, Segal promptly advances a pop-psych theory to the press: the murderer, he argues, is a mother hater who takes Mom for a slay ride every time he garrotes a middle-aged lady...