Word: groupthink
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...cinema. In his 18 puppet films (A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Emperor's Nightingale), he has bodied forth in speaking forms and singing colors a rich world of the spirit that for almost two decades has floated like a magical island in the grey sea of groupthink called Communism. In this tiny (19 minutes) but weighty puppet picture, Trnka (pronounced Trnka) has come right out with a wry but obviously heartfelt statement of the rights and wrongs of man in a totalitarian society...
Karate Chop. Get Smart! began as a product of groupthink when Talent Associates saw The Man from U.N.C.L.E. rising on the ratings and shrewdly suspected that the Bondwagon had room for one more. They commissioned Old Pro Mel Brooks (The 2,000-Year-Old Man) and Young Pro Buck (TW3) Henry to hack out a script about a fumbling hero. Instead, Brooks and Henry decided to make him a bumbling zero. Brooks recalls, "I was sick of looking at all those nice sensible situation comedies. They were such distortions of life. If a maid ever took over my house like...
...Seasons, probes the mind, heart and faith of Sir Thomas More, who chose to lose his life rather than his soul. Emlyn Williams portrays the hero-martyr. A Thousand Clowns, freshly and resourcefully comic, stars Jason Robards Jr. as a man who tries to grope his way out of groupthink toward the good life. Barbara Bel Geddes delivers Jean Kerr's subcutaneous witticisms with flair in long-running Mary, Mary...
...private teacher once a week. But for a fast-growing number of youngsters from 6 to 18, the once dreaded struggle with sharps and flats is now as lively as a trip with the gang to the soda fountain. Well, almost. The burgeoning category of "group" activities-from groupthink to group therapy-now includes the newest wrinkle in piano teaching: group plink. Items...
Long the targets of novelists, sociologists and other worriers, the organization man and "groupthink" came under heavy fire last week from the U.S. hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. Meeting at Washington's Catholic University for the annual bishops' conference, 227 prelates urged a rededication to the principle and practice of personal responsibility, in order to halt "the seemingly inexorable march toward the automation of human beings and the steady loss of that freedom which is man's distinctive attribute...