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...conventional criteria just don't hold up," Strasberg said. "But something does happen when these people come on the stage. The basic requirement is this: the capacity to be excited by imaginary stimuli. The actor must be able to reproduce a reaction to a situation at will...
...well-intentioned as Mr. de Caussin's "explosive charge of thought" was, it is regrettable that his tragic plight lends emotional influence to his appeal. The ironical probability is that the man whose atrocity prompted such remarks would react with similar disgust to the sexual stimuli that Mr. de Caussin denounces. Let's open our eyes to the brand of pseudo-moralistic views that produces such warped personalities...
...battle stress were sufficiently prolonged, Dr. Sargant took a flying leap to the conclusion that virtually any man's mind, if it cracks, will follow one of the behavior patterns that Pavlov thought he saw in dogs. At first, says Sargant, the mind seems to equalize all stimuli and reacts with the same intensity to a bomb attack or the squeal of a mouse. Second, it may go into a "paradoxical phase," and respond more vigorously to weak, unimportant stimuli than to strong ones. Finally, in what Pavlov called the "ultraparadoxical" phase, everything is upside down...
There are two main lines of defense for the system of grades. One, unquestioned, is that grades stimulate work which would not be done if grades were removed. The reformers contend that a different system could produce superior stimuli and render grades unnecessary. Such arguments vary, depending upon the reform...
...nine plays, all of which exhibit the optimism, poetry, and drama that have endowed his life with a richness beyond what his Spanish environment could warrant. From Casona's early ventures in poetry we see in all his later work a romantic, fictitious atmosphere, sprinkled with metaphors and emotional stimuli...