Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medical School has been plagued by this problem ever since its birth in 1782 in the basement of Harvard Hall. From that era up to the present day the School's history has been one of constant moving from one building to the next. In 1883, the School moved to 688 Boylston Street which "was expected to be the home for medicine for generations." Seventeen years later, it was ready to move to its present location just off Huntington Avenue...
Today there is a tremendous need for constant temperature rooms, special dark rooms, animal houses, refrigeration rooms, laboratory space, and renovations dictated by fifty year's wear and tear on the physical plant. The most convenient way to achieve many of these new requirements appears to be by the costly process of mezzanining (putting a floor between the already existing floors and ceilings...
...ineffective, by the script and the direction, both handled by Steve Salomon. The original French short story by Prosper Merime is difficult enough to believe, but Salomon added to this original fault by making much of the dialogue painfully simple, and by overworking both the theme and meanings through constant narration...
Finally, ever constant in the principles by which we live, we sense a special concern for the fate and fortune of those 700 million people in 18 nations who have won full independence since World War II. We know and respect both their national pride and their economic need. Here we speak from the heart of our heritage. We, too, were born at a time when the tide of tyranny running high threatened to sweep the earth. We prevailed and they shall prevail...
...people aren't really big; their motives often appear selfish or spiteful or stupid. The disparity between the characters' grand surroundings and their petty actions is, of course, one of the main points of the film, and it requires that these people be cut down from epic size by constant acid scrutiny. But it doesn't take three hours and any number of lavish sets to advance such a relatively simple argument--Stevens, as a matter of fact, clinches the point in one short scene which shows the group of ill-bred oil millionaires milling about in a hotel room...