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...Balint explains in Thrills and Regressions, published by London's Hogarth Press, his Greek polysyllables were devised after he had found, an earthy test for personality typing-how an individual reacts at an amusement park, or "fun-fair." The type that avoids the thrills of the roller coaster, whip and illusion rooms is an ocnophil, from a Greek verb meaning to shrink from or hang back. The opposite, or philobat ("one who loves to go places"), not only gets a kick out of these machines, but is the type that becomes a racing driver, stunt flyer, animal tamer, explorer...
Most productions of the play whip up the comedy and farce furiously, and abridge or soft-pedal the Claudio-Hero plot. Other things being equal, this may be the best solution--it is certainly the easiest. But Rabb has favored or scrimped no element in the play; he has lavished as much care on the serious as on the comic and farcical aspects. Consequently we can best see the play as it really is: when the lines soar, this production soars; when the writing flags, so does the production. The director's decision was daring, dangerous, and difficult...
...Clinic or Whip Room, He plays a rough game. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS cover...
...Telephones jangled all over Capitol Hill. Every Democrat was polled, cajoled, threatened. Majority Leader John McCormack paraded the fence sitters up and down the corridors, arguing endlessly. Alabama's Rains took a nose count, thought he smelled victory. "I tell you those Democrats are really burning," said Republican Whip Les Arends. "They are really putting the heat...
...Republican leaders fought just as hard. Hoping desperately for a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats that could push the Herlong substitute through, Minority Leader Charles Halleck lashed the whip as never before. "This is the big test," Halleck told a Republican caucus on the day of vote on the Herlong substitute. "This [Rains bill] is a budget-busting bill if ever there was one-by hundreds of millions of dollars...