Word: psychodramas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Deep End is being advertised as if it were a sequel to Repulsion. But instead of ghoulish psychodrama, it offers canny black comedy. Executed with a surrealistic flourish by Polish Director Jerzy Skolimowski (who collaborated with Roman Polanski on the script of Knife in the Water), it transforms the rite of puberty into a frenzied and often wildly funny vaudeville...
...which the brand of black militancy" now popular on campus is purely the creation of liberal masochism, and, as such, a phenomenon of group psychology rather than politics. But we must remember that the fairy-tale about the emperor's new clothes is really the story of a psychodrama, and though we may currently choose to play it out in an academic setting, we do have to live with the possibility that an occasional up start will come along and point out that the emperor is, after all, naked...
...little reason to expect lasting change. But there is reason for optimism in the fact that the U.S. has begun to understand, and to measure, TV's power over the imagination as well as over behavior. It is, of course, irresponsible to make TV the heavy in every social psychodrama, from urban uprisings to the Viet Nam War. Yet who can dispute that televisionday and nighttimeis a child's sixth sense of the world? Watching a child wide-eyed before the screen, who can doubt the anecdote of Plato's cave, where creatures were chained forever watching shadow...
...size (between 38 and 40 dancers). Reflecting Joffrey's scholarly catholic taste, pieces by other choreographers range from delicate snippets of 19th century Danish court-style ballet (Bournonville's William Tell Variations) to an intelligently danced but dramatically muzzy re-creation of Petrouchka, to the somber, erotic psychodrama of Todd Bolender's The Still Point (new with the company this season...
...Human Potential Movement is a loose chain of several hundred psychological supermarkets in which a customer can buy almost anything his little hurt desires: Sensitivity Training, Interracial Encounters, Creative Divorce Workshops, Heterosexual Body Sandwiches, Nude Psychodrama, Attack Therapy, Vomit Training. The movement is already something of a force, and many psychologists would agree with Dr. Carl Rogers, one of its leading prophets, that "intensive group experiences are perhaps the most significant social invention of this century." H.P.M. is growing so fast, moreover, that the professionals can't police it and the public can't really tell...