Word: coming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least be called relevant. But a far greater part of the time, Dr. Cornish is being visited by relatives: a son and a daughter-in-law, a brother and a sister-in-law, a sister and a brother-in-law, a nephew and a niece. In they come with their little domestic problems, and out they go; back they come with their headaches or their beatnik poets, and out they go again. Seldom has there been so little action in a play, so many needless people, or such endless talk. But the worst trouble with The Highest Tree...
...tenth man is a young lawyer with no faith in religion, or even in life itself, who has been brought in off the street to make a quorum for morning prayers. Except for an aged rabbi, even the elderly Jews who show up largely lack faith; they come out of habit or boredom, or as to a club where they can gossip and wisecrack and argue various isms. One of them brings his 18-year-old granddaughter, a schizophrenic who has been in and out of asylums and who, he thinks, is possessed of a dybbuk or evil spirit that...
...other hand, Van Doren's come-clean statement struck some highly sensitive and sympathetic nerves. When NBC sacked him from his $50,000 post, more than 700 letters poured into the network, 5 to 1 in favor of Van Doren. When Columbia University "accepted his resignation" as an assistant professor of English, hundreds of students held a rally for him. (But one leaned out of a dorm window and cried, "Hey, Charlie's going to be in the quad tomorrow to give out the answers to the Comparative Lit exam.") Officials of several colleges hinted that they would...
...Freedom. "There is a spectrum in 'freedom' and 'open' doors-they are not absolutes," says Dr. Hunt. "Doors are open, and some patients can come and go freely, but some are so disturbed that an attendant will ask them to wait for a little talk. The important thing is that they are asked to stay in, not physically restrained. Patients on shock treatment are asked to stay in on treatment days, for their own safety. They understand. In all, 80%-or more than 4,000 patients-have full freedom of the grounds, unsupervised, some part...
...society has not held water." Most U.S. visitors agree that Russian scientists are less restricted by political ideology than by the rigid hierarchies of the institutes where they work (which are outgrowths of ideology). "The director is boss," said one of them, "and the younger men tremble when they come to see him." The hierarchal power of the senior scientists sometimes keeps younger men from doing independent research...