Word: delirium
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...agreed with Playwright Rattigan's picture of Lawrence, but, wrote Critic T. C. W^orsely: "As one view of the enigma, this will impose itself for a long time." Rhinoceros, Avant-Gardist Eugene lonesco's new play, opened with Sir Laurence Olivier triumphing over the din-and-delirium direction of Orson Welles, lonesco's famed earlier one-acters dealt opaquely with such subjects as a girl with three noses and a man and wife who share their apartment with a growing corpse. This time the playwright almost approaches realism: everyone but the hero merely turns into...
...marry Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, in direct line for the throne. Alas, Prince "Eddy," as they called him. was not very bright but very dissipated, and he died-in the usual semi-public royal fashion, with May and his family at his bedside-in a "noisy and frightful delirium." There remained George, Duke of York, Eddy's younger brother, a naval officer. After a suitable interval, bluff George and reticent May were married, and set up house at York Cottage, near Sandringham, practically a split-level by royal standards. George had his quirks and foibles, and his language...
Vinay negotiated the hour-long opening act commendably, while Liebl huddled backstage in an overcoat waiting to change costumes with him. Liebl sang the second act in adequate style, and Da Costa turned in some of the best singing of the evening during Tristan's third-act death delirium. All three took separate curtain calls and somewhat reluctantly posed for photographers with Soprano Nilsson, who can outthunder even a perfectly healthy Heldentenore. "I was just afraid to catch the bacillus." said she. "They were all really wonderful, my Tristans." Were the tenors all really ailing? "They said they were...
...when a San Francisco spinster named Alice Babette Toklas appeared, "soft, small, and warmly murmurous," Gertrude switched boon companions for life. The two gentle ladies from America enjoyed living in the eye of the bohemian hurricane. There was the writer André Salmon, who foamed at the mouth with delirium (he later claimed it was soap) and nibbled the trimmings on Alice Toklas' hat. There was Alfred Jarry, an absinthe-minded playwright who carried a revolver and once shot down "some obstreperous nightingales." Oddest of all was Gerald Berners, an English lord who had a tiny piano built into...
...Ocean counties in southern New Jersey, other bulletins poured in to the state department of health. By week's end, the department reported that a strange and deadly malady was reaching alarming proportions: 19 people had been hospitalized, nine had died. The symptoms were the same: headache, nausea, delirium, then coma and convulsions. Some doctors thought it was bulbar polio; others considered it meningitis. But though New Jersey's health department had not yet issued a blanket diagnosis, most doctors thought they knew what it was: Eastern equine encephalitis, one of the most feared forms (a 75% death...