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...until the grand finale that the Doctor partakes of the violence she had only been directing up to that point. In a kind of calculated loss of self-control, Ma-Gico wholeheartedly murders an old blind king who has just survived three similar murder attemps by lesser characters. Deriving overwhelming pleasure from the act, Ma-Gico can do nothing but end the play which has consisted, in effect, of a comic parade of hangings, murders, elongated phalluses, and other instruments of horror controlled by Ma-Gico...

Author: By Mark D. Epstein, | Title: Magical Acting | 9/29/1973 | See Source »

...name is Kate Brown. She is upper-middle-class English. Unlike most Lessing women, who are versions of Lessing herself, she is no intellectual. She is bright, though, and at 45 has long since acquired at some pain those caring virtues necessary to bring up a family: "Patience, self-control, self-abnegation, selfdiscipline, chastity, adaptability to others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of a Lady | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

...retrospective shock"-the sudden recovery of old memories that may give insight into present troubles. After watching her rigid posture on the monitor for 15 minutes, one patient recalled a childhood fear: that she would be abandoned if she did not behave. That was the reason for her exaggerated self-control as an adult. Aware that the fear was no longer realistic, she became able to relax and behave more spontaneously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Video Therapy | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

...colored, hairy, round-eyed barbarians? "I do not know whether they have a proper system of ceremonial etiquette," one Oriental lord wrote of the Namban-jin, or "people from the south." "They eat with their fingers instead of chopsticks as we do. They show their feelings without any self-control...but withal they are a harmless sort of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: As Others Saw Us | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

...emotionally except when some other small immediate annoyance sets off the blaze. It is possible to live here [at Hopewell] and realize nothing about the baby. This is so removed from him. Does that sound hard and unfeeling? I feel that I am willing to barter anything for my self-control right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Lindbergh Nightmare | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

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