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...first thrusts of Nazi power broke up the magic circle; in 1933 Erikson and his Canadian-born wife migrated to the U.S. His studies variously took him to Berkeley, Cambridge and the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Mass. He has spent time in the poor sections of Pittsburgh and on two Indian reservations, where he reflected upon the wisdom of "primitive" child-rearing practices. During World War II he did research assignments for the Government, and afterward worked four years to complete Childhood and Society...
...commercial opens, hubby asks the little woman (Dancer Ann Miller disguised as a hausfrau) what is cooking. "The Great American Soup!" she says, ripping off her apron. The kitchen walls part to reveal a set out of a 1935 Busby Berkeley musical, including 20 frizzy-haired chorines clattering away on raised silver platforms and 4,000 jets of water colored red, white and blue. The Billy May orchestra pounds out the production number, which has such lyrics as "The soupy road to romance" and "Let's face the chicken gumbo and dance." Miller, singing and tatta-tatting down...
...have possibly predicted such a rapid decline, and even now with the benefit of hindsight, it is hard to tell why the people who moved to join from 1920-1924 dropped it so totally in 1925-1926, (Joe) McCarthyism was basically a four year phenomenon, 1950-1954. The famous Berkeley anthropologist, Alfred Krocher, studied the changes in the length of skirts for a 100 year period using Paris fashion catalogues. He reported an irregular cyclical pattern in which skirts rose and fell almost as far as they could go in either direction...
...riverrun tells of a young couple fresh from Berkeley, living together somewhere in the California countryside. Opting out of conventional social strata and consumerism, they settle on a farm and attempt to live in a Walden -esque fashion. Their tranquility is upset when Sarah's father, a merchant seaman, makes a prolonged visit, waiting for the birth of his grandson. The father is a grizzled old Yankee, and ideas predictably clash with those of his equally non-conformist but distastefully aesthetic daughter and her would-be husband (the couple never marry). In a climax as overwrought as the fruitiest...
...Diego, which William J. McGill left two months ago to become president of Columbia University. So far, neither San Diego's faculty nor California's regents have been able to find a good man willing to become McGill's successor. Finding another Heyns for Berkeley may be just as difficult...