Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season's first smash hit, The Boy Friend, saw its author locked out of rehearsals with a detective guarding the door. Silk Stockings was more spotlighted during its harassed tryout than are most hits at the peak of their run. Such so-so plays as Anastasia and Inherit the Wind packed enough second-act wallop to have the whole town talking. House of Flowers featured gorgeous rival bordellos, Lunatics and Lovers a bubble bath onstage...
...Museum's only U.S. purchase. Two Points of Interest by Brooklyn Artist Edmond Casarella, 34, is a scrawled composition of broken space which slowly unjangles to reveal forms suggesting an apartment house, shades half drawn, laundry on the line, and a peek into a bedroom with a closed door...
...politics that do not concern it; ultimately we might awaken to find that a once-strong alliance had crumbled. Finally, there is the very real possibility that there has been a shift in Russian policy: the men presently in the Kremlin might genuinely wish for peaceful co-existence. The door to such a goal is one which United States policy-makers must never shut...
Then, after unlocking the final, fifth door between the ward and the outside world, he stepped into a scene rarely found in hospitals for the mentally ill. The "Bunny Hop" was blaring on a little wind-up phonograph. A Radcliffe freshman was dancing with a wizened old man whose eyes were almost as lively as his feet. A Harvard junior was getting ready for a game of musical chairs with seven women whose ages were hidden behind prematurely-drawn faces...
Each woman had a yellow daffodil in her stringy hair, and they had all just finished gulping down cookies and purple punch. What had happened to the usual somber atmosphere of "G-3"? The simple answer was provided by a patient standing near the door. "The volunteers have come," she said, almost breaking into a smile...