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Badly, says Sebastian de Grazia, a layman, in Errors of Psychotherapy (Doubleday; $3). His complaint: the psychotherapists are ignoring moral values and man's "communal nature." Badly, says Psychologist Robert Lindner in Prescription for Rebellion, out this week (Rinehart; $3.50). His complaint: the psychotherapists are still hogtied by old ideas about moral values and the need for men to be like each other to live together...
...Sebastian last week, deep in the heart of pelota country, 300 competitors from eight nations (Spain, France, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, the Philippines, Cuba and Italy) fought it out in the first world pelota championships. But the lineal descendants of the original simple game were so many and so varied that hardly anyone could agree on the size of the court, the resiliency of the ball, whether the game should be played barehanded, with racquets or with cestas (wicker baskets shaped like a pelican's lower bill).*Finally, to almost no one's satisfaction, it was agreed to play...
...last night of the tournament, with Spain and France running neck & neck for the world title, San Sebastian was abuzz with pelota talk. The local fronton (court) was crammed with 3,000 spectators straining at the wire screen that separated them from the players (and also from the hard rubber ball, covered with goatskin, that zips up & down the court at a 100 m.p.h. clip...
...construction companies. Famed Berlin Restaurant Proprietor Otto Horcher, who once served Göring and Goebbels, now has his own restaurant in Madrid; his food ranks with the best in Europe. SS Colonel Eugen Dollmann, Himmler's onetime personal representative, is opening an import-export business in San Sebastian. Former Gestapo Officer Ernst Hammes has a de luxe gift shop in Madrid's fashionable Serrano district. Scarfaced SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny, daredevil paratrooper who snatched Mussolini from his mountain prison in 1943, and dressed his killers in U.S. uniforms during the Bulge breakthrough, has leeched...
...week: a whole concert given over to his music in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium. There were selections from his operas Amelia Goes to the Ball, The Consul, Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Island God, The Old Maid and the Thief, as well as part of his ballet Sebastian and his Piano Concerto. By the end of the evening, Menotti had proved again that he is one of the most melodious composers of the day and a natural for a summer evening outdoors. Thomas Schippers. 22, led the Menotti program with perception and skill...