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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FRITZ LANG'S most brilliant act was the creation of Dr. Mabuse. Esteemed psychologist, master-mind counterfeiter, Mabuse prowled fast society "to play with men's lives and men's souls." Disguised as a smooth-faced young compulsive or a solid English gentleman, he gained admission to private gambling clubs and forced men with his eyes to play millions of marks into his hands. Made up as Dr. Weltmann in long seraggly hair and beard, he conducted public demonstrations of hypnosis that almost succeeded in doing away with his arch-enemy, detective de Witt. Undisguised he discarded the women...
...inventing this super-hero Lang created an adventure film whose marvels illustrated a deep and true vision of life. He refused to people Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922) with the cardboard Bonds and Flints of today's adventure fantasies. Every character is a complex personality. In one gambling house de Witt, hunting "the Great Unknown," is distracted by the sight of an extraordinary woman, the Countess Tolst. He leaves the card table to walk to the couch on which she reposes. In two minutes Lang gives us her soul. We see no shallow temptress, no abstract sentimental heroine. The countess...
...Dr. Farnsworth characterized the behavior of a typical heavy marijuana user as being unmotivated and non-communicative. "After they're set in the pattern," he said, "they often can't cope with reality. Responsible, achievement-oriented students change, their minds begin to drift...
...pill-oriented, medicated society" is partially responsible for the increase in drug abuse, Dr. Farnsworth said. "It is not unusual for people to take as many as six mind altering drugs in one day," he said. "They begin with caffeine, go through nicotine, dict pills, tranquilizers, alcohol, and finish with sleeping pills...
Responding to a question from the audience, Dr. Farnsworth estimated that two-thirds of the Harvard undergraduates had tried pot, but only ten per cent of that two-thirds (approximately seven per cent) were regular users. "The number of LSD users fluctuates," he said, "but it's not very high...