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You might just as well sit in the second row, for the standard collegiate hash will reach every corner of the theater, arousing smiles on an audience full of old-and new-timers with a weakness for the snaphappy sound. The Kroks rendition of "Blue Moon", along with its tortuous...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Odd Notes | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

Pirates and Pinafore may attack the great weakness for duty shared by all Victorians but Patience goes straight for the Achilles' heel of a minority. In this less well known Gilbert and Sullivan satire it is the aesthetes who so carefully buttoned their sleeves in the last half of the...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: STAGE | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

Mother's Role. Most family therapists try to get at the roots of schizophrenia by treating parents and grandparents as well as the child. But at a Manhattan conference of family therapists (titled "Beyond the Double Bind"), Bowen insisted that the roots go farther back. In fact, he believes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Genealogy of the Weakest Child | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

The sharp break in the book at that scene--it becomes suddenly less banal, more interesting--points up the book's major strength and weakness. From that point on, Robert's conflicts with his father are rooted in reality: someone, somehow, has to do something about Kate's pregnancy, and...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: An Unoriginal Sin | 4/1/1977 | See Source »

The "New Left," Ismael says, emerged as a response to the failure of pro-Palestinian forces in 1967 to wage war successfully against Israel and the forces of world (mostly U.S.) imperialism which she represents to the "New Left." While the roots--and, indeed, the actual formation--of various leftist...

Author: By Marilyn L. Booth, | Title: Left Turn in the Middle East | 3/23/1977 | See Source »

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