Word: rollos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...like "evil", "fantastic" and "dangerous" when describing him. Their machine gun attacks would probably render most men impotent. They say that his psychology is "vacuous," "unscientific," "irresponsible," "without a psyche" and that it "necessitates an atrophy of consciousness." And many of them are distinguished figures: Noam Chomsky, Thomas Szasz, Rollo May, Carl Rogers and Stephen Spender--to name...
...Rollo May once unknowingly pointed out a fundamental aspect of Skinner's personality by criticizing his work: "I have never found any place in Skinner's system for the rebel. Yet the capacity to rebel is of the essence in a constructive society." Skinner was something of a rebel during his college career and still is--perhaps a reason for his never starting a community along the lines of the one in his novel, Walden Two. After developing an aversion to Hamilton College("I was not good at sports and suffered acutely as...better players bounced basketballs off my cranium...
...ninth-hole water hazard and the triumph of love over a fifteen handicap. These 31 stories, a Masters tournament of golfing tales, stretch gloriously from The Clicking of Cuthbert (1916) to Sleepy Time (1968) and pass such milestones as The Heart of a Goof and The Awakening of Rollo Podmarsh...
Lady Fair. A somewhat different view of Tillich's libido appears in another book to be published this month, Paulus (Harper & Row; $5.95). Written by his former student, Rollo May, it suggests that Tillich's pursuit of women was more sensual than sexual. To May, Tillich was in the medieval mold, a throwback to the age of chivalry, an incurable romantic who could scarcely write a book-even his best theology -without at least inwardly dedicating it to some lady fair. He was Teutonically serious about sex; the erotic pretensions of classic pornography attracted him, but he abhorred...
...play's only song, "Take, o take those lips away" (which also turns up in Beaumont and Fletcher's play Rollo, with music by John Wilson), is assigned by Shakespeare to a young boy, who serenades Mariana in the garden of her "moated grange." Instead of a solo ayre, John Morris has composed a pleasant madrigal for ten singers, which is later reprised offstage and, at the end, played by a brass choir, to round off a dissonant play with harmonious concords...