Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PETER LUKE'S Hadrian VII is a mediocre play with one outstanding central character. Structured like The Wizard of Oz, with a plot line that could have been borrowed from Putney Swope, this comic fantasy has more possibilites as soliloquy than as drama. Frederick William Rolfe, English recluse and neurotic who imagines himself Pope, has dreams more concrete than Dorothy's and ambitions no less earthshaking than Swope's. In treating the complex syndromes of Rolfe, playwright Luke has sidestepped the Putney-Swope assumption that what is sick must be funny: the Oz alternative (what is sick should be taken...
...Frederick Sheldon and Henry Russell Shaw fellowships each provide their four winners with $3200 to supplement their education through foreign travel...
...raise agreement. New York City Postmaster John Strachan tried to win over the strikers with an offer of amnesty; other postal officials undermined unionists' confidence with overoptimistic reports of the troops' effectiveness in handling the mail. The federal court joined the siege. U.S. District Judge Frederick Bryan found Gustave Johnson, president of New York's Branch 36, N.A.L.C., in contempt of an earlier court order forbidding the strike, and gave him until 5 p.m. Wednesday to get his men back to work or face fines that could bankrupt both him and the union. The judge set Johnson...
...President's Commission on Postal Organization declared that each year the Post Office "slips farther behind the rest of the economy in service, in efficiency and in meeting its responsibilities as an employer." The commission, headed by former A.T. & T. Chairman Frederick R. Kappel, cited among the Post Office's top problems "widespread disquiet among postal employees" because of "antiquated personnel practices, poor working conditions, limited career opportunities and training...
Died. Dr. Frederick Perls, 76, German-born psychiatrist who helped found Gestalt therapy; following abdominal surgery; in Chicago. A onetime Freudian, Perls developed a psychotherapeutic technique that focused attention on the "here and now" in the patient's consciousness rather than a Freudian interpretation of the past. Perls introduced his theories to the U.S. in 1946, wrote about them in such books as Gestalt Therapy (1951) and Gestalt Therapy Verbatim (1969), and saw them become a major influence in encounter-group therapy...