Word: busyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Europeans find little to cheer about. Thirty-four months after V-E day, recovery has come so slowly-so much hope has been deferred-that few can bring themselves to say they feel better off (though engaged couples, newlyweds, and young lawyers busy with their first cases nearly always do...
FARMERS EVERYWHERE, busy with spring chores, were giving thanks for the mild winter. Even the blast of snow and freezing weather that had hit Britain in mid-February had been rather welcome. Said a toothless Suffolk fanner: "The crops were coming up too fast. The snow put 'em to...
Now 54, Kuniyoshi looks rather like a prematurely aged Japanese schoolboy. He wears horn-rimmed glasses and a porkpie hat, smokes a pipe, and says he has "no time" for golf any more. He is too busy working, nine hours a day, on the sorts of pictures that fill most...
"Mourning Becomes Electra" can hardly claim to be entertainment. It can be compared neither to the Hitchcock thriller that also mixes psychology and murder, nor to the "good" European film, also dramatic--but on purely human, and therefore familiar, terms. "Electra" is all O'Neill--deeply emotional, sonorous, and occasionally...
But Dr. Thorndike and his assistants have had plenty of gratifying moments that make up for the bad ones. There's one Busy School student whose legs were so badly mangled that he couldn't walk two blocks without severe pain. He's now an expert touch football player, but...