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Harvard theater--its history, relation, to the national theater, and present state--was reviewed by three members of the Faculty in a symposium led by noted playwright Robert W. Anderson '39 yesterday morning...
AFTER THE FALL is a nightlong symposium on guilt and self-justification conducted by Arthur Miller in terms of his mother and wives, notably Marilyn Monroe. Elia Kazan's staging is electric, but Miller has not put enough distance between his suffering and his craft to fashion a play. Alternates, in repertory, with Marco Millions...
...only twelve outbreaks of botulism (46 victims, of whom 14 died) were reported last year. Yet for the Public Health Service's symposium last week on this deadliest form of food poisoning, 300 experts turned up in Cincinnati-eloquent testimony to the severity of the problem. The trouble is, said the University of Michigan's Dr. Lloyd L. Kempe, that ever since safety standards were set in 1922, botulism research has been "shamefully neglected...
...20th century, with its jet-speed travel, its population explosion and its threat of nuclear annihilation, has been widely touted as "the age of stress." Last weekend a dozen of the world's top authorities on all kinds of stress got together in a symposium at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. Their conclusion: today's stresses differ from yesterday's more in kind than in degree. More important, they said, stress is good for you. In fact, it would be hard to live without...
...MENTAL STRESS is good for the mind, Dr. Gerard added: "Activity of the nervous system improves its capacity for activity, just as exercising a muscle makes it stronger." Is It an Antidote? Some kinds of stress may even be antidotes for the harmful effects of other kinds, and the symposium considered an example in the flesh. Montreal's Dr. Hans Selye, who has made a career of studying stress, appeared on crutches and explained that he had broken his hip by falling out of a maple tree "while following the advice of Dr. White to get more exercise...