Word: donald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general hospital has beds for only 30 acute alcoholics. As a result, Washington spends $2,000,000 a year tossing drunks in the workhouse along with thieves and gamblers; the money might better be used for a treatment center. The setup "stinks," fumes Washington Corrections Department Director Donald Clemmer. "The real alcoholic is not a criminal and should not bear the stigma of imprisonment...
...Died. Donald Culross Peattie, 66, poet, author and naturalist, who in more than 25 lyrical books (An Almanac for Moderns, A Cup of Sky) gave new voice to Thoreau's idea that man reaches spiritual fulfillment only through contact with nature, saying that "it touches a man that his blood is sea water and his tears are salt, and he who goes in no consciousness of these facts is without a home or any contact with reality"; of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...Gothic catacomb of a cellar. All his guests are to come as leading figures of the Revolution. Maxime himself plays Saint-Just. Other friends play Danton, Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI ("virtually a nonspeaking role") and the Comte de Mirabeau. The butt of the party is to be Bitos (Donald Pleasence), the local deputy prosecutor, an ex-classmate of Maxime's and the son of a washerwoman. He comes as Robespierre...
...phenomenally difficult role of Bitos-Robespierre, Donald Pleasence is phenomenally good. He is a one-man seminar of the acting art, capturing every shading of the role from social unease to icy cruelty. He even bites his fingernails as if dreaming of heavenly guillotines. The scrofulous bum of The Caretaker has become the holy terrorist of the French Revolution...
...Donald Wyman, horticulturist at the Arboretum, said that the scientific name of the trees was platinus acera foils, and claimed that they could justifiably be referred to as sycamores. London plane trees and sycamores are "pretty nearly identical, anyway," he observed...