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...adaptations to develop during rehearsal -- like Mueller's entertaining monologues as she tries to persuade her friends to renew their subscription to The Homemaker's Companion. He has honed away various lighting cues of the original script that might seem hokey today. What is left is a memory as transient as the match that Tom strikes to light a cigarette before each scene; the match flares, then the set lights go up. For those who can still enjoy a sentimental evening, this is Tennessee Williams at its best...
...appointees. At a recent celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, eight of eleven high department offices were represented on the podium by acting officials. As they were introduced to the bureaucracy-wise audience of mainly H.E.W. workers, the ludicrousness of their transient titles touched off muffled titters that soon turned to roars of laughter. At present, offices such as the massive Social Security Administration ($60 billion a year), the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Health Services and Mental Health Administration are without permanent heads. The Department...
...social dropouts, sort of sacred nuts. The tradition deepens in the works of playwrights like William Inge and Tennessee Williams. Their characters are not so much oddballs as odd souls who suffer psychic and sexual wounds. This is the world of the alienated self, the mutilated heart, the existential transient, moving a playgoer more nearly to tears than to laughter...
...House system unfortunately can be written off as nothing more than good living accomodations. House Masters grow more remote, more transient and less sympathetic. Senior Faculty associated with a House provide the residents nothing except an occasional march of the potentates, giving anyone in the dining hall some amusement watching the entire faculty of a Harvard department troop in for a free meal. Some of the grad students and tutors try to redeem the situation, but many of them don't bother. Harvard's administration is disturbed by the situation in the College, with reason: neither the living arrangements...
Many experts find that the emotional aftermath of abortion depends somewhat on circumstances (abortion is harder on single women for example, than on married ones) and greatly on emotional health. A study by Psychiatrist Norman Simon found that reactions were mild and transient in women who were relatively stable before their pregnancy was terminated...