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...liberal's term for the quarry of a Congressman or a ladylike term for an untamed shrew; oldtime witches seem to have disappeared. Not so in the eyes of Jungian psychologists, to many of whom the whole world of demons, myth and fable is every bit as vivid as it is to poets and children. For Jungians believe that certain kinds of myths are repeated over and over again in all eras and societies, thus furnishing clues to the universal unconscious, just as an individual's dreams may give clues to his individual unconscious. Taking off from that...
...bases his observations on six young women patients, all of whom "were 'loathed' by everybody, including the analyst. What set them apart, according to Stein, is a "changeable, nebulous, ambiguous, enigmatic attitude [and an] alluring charm sharply contrasting with their sarcastic, cruel reasonableness . . ." They projected "a vivid image of the evil temptress, from whom it is no far cry to the 'witch...
...picture, as in the novel, the dramatic scalpel does not cut very deep. But there are vivid clinical scenes in hospital ward and peasant hovel, touching sequences of the young doctor's struggles with Auvergne's backward farmers, who prefer faith healers to doctors...
Dekker was an unsurpassedly keen observer of contemporary London life, if not a peeping Tom; and he gave us here a vivid picture of the artisan and aristocratic milieus. The finest social comedy of its age, Holiday has special appeal for us today: it presents pre-echos of the Horatio Alger story, champions the ideals of democracy (even the King proclaims that "love respects no blood, cares not for difference of birth or state"), and contains the first labor sit down strike in drama...
...linas, the ranking clown of French-Canadian musical revues. Members of Montreal's theatrical corps, schooled in the French acting tradition, were brought to Stratford to people the French scenes. The play was a solid hit, with Shakespeare's French and English contrasts made twice as vivid as a one-language company could play them. The effect in the battle scenes, one critic noted, "was of whole armies feeling their way toward battle with radically different sets of nerves...