Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Director Nicholas Webster made excellent use of his cameras and of the simple but solid sets. The costumes, inspired by archaic statues and vase paintings, were well designed and made of top-grade material. And finally, a word must be said for the stunning quality of the film's Anscocolor processing...
...Hospitals in Ohio'(as in many other states) have long enjoyed immunity against damage suits by patients injured because of hospital employees' negligence. The immunity was based on a tortured interpretation of an archaic ruling that classified hospitals primarily as charitable institutions. Now the Ohio Supreme Court has overturned the ruling, pointing out that hospitals can get liability insurance like any other business. Hospital trustees need not fear personal liability. ¶ To raise $500,000 for its expansion fund, Burge Hospital in Springfield, Mo. devised a novel come-on: donors may receive half the amount of their subscriptions...
...they were by a kind of rage because life was not more beautiful. Their kind of literary rebellion is as dated today as the harsh, shallow life they raged against. That is what makes The Narrow Covering, a first novel by Kansas-born Julia Siebel, as curious and archaic as grandpa's best suit accidentally encountered in a forgotten closet...
...general excellence of the production: the competent singing, the fine instrumental support, and the brilliant costumery, designed by Anne Hollander--all under the apt direction of Robert Beckwith. The setting, moreover, was very appropriate: the antique statuary and columnwork of the Fogg Courtyard blended well with the archaic twang of the harpsichords, the delicate timbre of the lutes, and the Renaissance line of Monteverdi's melody--austere, exuberant, or poignant...
...passive, however, because they have more at stake. A home can easily become a tenement or a rooming house, but factories and stores are not so adaptable to the new conditions. Industrialists see workers forced into often unwelcome patterns, they watch tax rates rising, transportation clogged, and find that archaic land use patterns make physical expansion difficult. But industry, like residents, can move on. The expense is great, but seldom prohibitive if the demand for the product is not lost in the move...