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...American Activities subcommittee put Communist Benjamin Davis, a New York City councilman and member of the Communist Party's national executive board, in its witness chair. Negro Ben Davis was happy at the chance to taunt the committee, which he called "tainted with illegality." He defied Congress to pass a bill requiring U.S. Communists to register as agents of a foreign nation, predicted that Communists would simply ignore it. Said Davis: "We . . . refuse to be put in the category of political suspects. . . . Gentlemen, it is not within your power to legislate the failure of this mighty movement...
...scientific committee (which included Benjamin Franklin and that most gruesome of inventors, Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin) investigated Mesmer and declared that his theories were unscientific. But the experiments went on. A later Viennese physician, Sigmund Freud, experimented for a while with electricity and hypnotism, and then abandoned hypnotism for his own techniques of psychoanalysis. He reasoned that a patient under hypnosis is apt to say what the physician wants him to say instead of revealing his "unconscious" mind. Besides, Freud decided, hypnotism's effects are too ephemeral and not everybody can be hypnotized...
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Peter Grimes, by Britain's gifted young Benjamin Britten (TIME, Feb. 16), was unquestionably a success-the most successful new opera the Met had put on in years. It was not, however, the success it had been in Europe. The Met had lavished great care on it: the chorus sang well, Emil Cooper's orchestra did handsomely by Britten's tricky music (the best of his music is written for the orchestra, not for the soloists). But the Met just couldn't break itself of its old habits. Frederick Jagel neither looked nor acted the difficult...
Those who have seen Benjamin Britten find it hard to believe that he could conceive so violent a play as Peter Grimes: it is almost like Baby Snooks reading lines from Medea. He is the kind of person no one remembers meeting at a party. Usually to be seen in a loose tweed coat, slacks and sweater, his hands habitually stuffed into his pockets, he has a rather tight, lean, nosy face which wrinkles easily into a vinegarish smile under a widow's peak of crinkly hair. He has a very English embarrassment about expressing emotion about anything...