Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diverse group: a married couple, an internal revenue employee, a few housewives, a physical-ed instructor, a secretary, a lawyer, a college student, and a commercial artist with a polío-crippled arm. Some of us had been attracted by the excellent reputation of the group leader, Sylvia Evans, a psychologist and therapist with the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. Some had registered (fee only $30 for the weekend) at the suggestion of their ministers or their therapists...
...Sylvia, an attractive blonde woman with three grown children, used a number of well-tested psychological devices to draw all of us fully into the sessions. We did yoga deep-breathing exercises, and sat back-to-back in pairs, talking to each other only about our immediate feelings, the "here and now" that is all-important to Gestaltists. We looked long and often uncomfortably into each other's eyes, then walked around in silence with our eyes closed, making physical contact with each other-clasping hands, embracing, caressing -whatever we were moved...
After each exercise, Sylvia asked: "Does anyone want to share his experience with us?" When one of us made a revealing response, she deftly turned the group's attention -like a movie director shifting a camera-toward him, moving in for a closeup that was soon followed by flashbacks and moments of drama...
...reaching a critical point." said Sylvia Simmons, director of Financial Aid. "We must have additional money to meet the need of admitted students. Radcliffe has not had to face an admit/deny situation before. Now we do," she said...
...empty world. The bleakness of Miss Lonely-hearts and The Day of the Locust reflect West's own isolation. He was always very shy, had few friends and never attended school regularly. After graduating from college he left immediately for Paris and from a dark corner in Sylvia Beach's bookshop watched Joyce and Hemingway browse through the stacks...