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While his employees work hard, in a mental state that resembles a guilt complex, Farrell feels occasional doubts. Recently he told an interviewer he would quit Broadway when the current adventure was ended. But last week, when holiday crowds pepped up the box-office take, he took on a new determination to keep the show going. His taste in entertainment was improving, too: he had seen the new musical hit, South Pacific, and it had "renewed my faith in the theater." Now he wants to do a show as good as that...
...fast-cycling views. The upshot was a compromise. Nationalization was only extended to six more industries-water supply, meat wholesaling and cold storage, all "suitable" mineral production, industrial insurance, sugar, cement. Actually, three of these are already partially under state control; all can be controlled-Labor hopes-without complex reorganization...
...thank Thee, O Lord, that my Freudian adviser has told me there is no such thing as guilt, that sin is a myth, and that Thou, O Father, art only a projection of my father complex ... Oh, I thank Thee that I am not like the rest of men, those nasty people, such as the Christian there in the back of the temple, who thinks that he is a sinner, that his soul stands in need of grace ... I may have an Oedipus complex, but I have...
...people in "The Happiest Years." But it is really as an essay in feminine logic and psychology that the authors show their astuteness and humor, and it is there that the audience has its most fun. I could cite some examples of this "feminine logic" but it is complex by its very nature, as you know, and an accumulative and personal reasoning process that is without meaning until one has first become acquainted with the particular female. During the course of the evening, you become very well acquainted indeed with the mother-in-law in "The Happiest Years...
...oversimplifies the complex business of selective admissions," said Paul M. Chalmers, assistant director of admissions at M.I.T., who stated his institution's opposition to the bill...