Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play in this sense is not so much psychological drama--an explanation of personality or behavior--as a kind of psycho-suspense thriller with one important question: Can Dysart trace the trail of clues that lead to explaining why the boy did what he did? There's also the question of whether he will be able to cure him, and, almost a corollary to this second mystery: Does Dysart want to cure...
...fire in a psycho-physiology lab on the eleventh floor of William James Hall yesterday resulted in $2000 to $3000 of smoke damage to the lab and "utterly destroyed one slide projector," according to David C. Wilcox, assistant superintendent of the Faculty...
...their clues. Worried because "the nineteenth-century pre-eminence of history in the sphere of intellect no longer obtains," intellectual and musical historian Jacques Barzun (University Professor at Columbia, author of Darwin, Marx. Wagner) has undertaken to incite resistance to modern modes of history. In Clio and the Doctors: Psycho History Quanto-History, and History (University of Chicago Press) he cites the depths of the problem he and some other older historians see: The historical sense in modern populations is feeble or nonexistent, as Ortega pointed out, even though the mania for keeping records, building archives, and celebrating trivial anniversaries...
...then spends much of the film trying to hunt down and kill his own child, as if to win back community respect. Even a score by the usually excellent Bernard Herrman is of little help. Herrman did the music for many of Hitchcock's best films (Vertigo, Psycho). His participation in It's Alive lends it a fleeting and futile air of quality, like a concert virtuoso playing piano in a cathouse...
...Made the Movies. Richard Shickel's intelligent documentary series on film directors. Tonight: The work of Alfred Hitchcock, with clips from "Saboteur" (1942), "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943), "North By Northwest" (1959), "Psycho" (1960), "The Birds" (1963), "Torn Curtain" (1966) and "Frenzy" (1972). Ch. 44, 8 p.m. 1 hour...