Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assure "Oriental" (i.e., non-European) immigrants that the Mapai Party would fight to break down social divisions in Israel springing from which people arrived first in the country, Dayan, Peres and Ben-Gurion himself campaigned door to door through Tel Aviv slums. Cape Town-born Abba Eban, who had never lived in Israel before his return from the U.S. last summer, got off to an awkward start by turning up in statesman's coat and tie for a Mapai rally at which Ben-Gurion and everybody else on the platform wore open-necked shirts. As quickly as was diplomatically...
Most controversial figure of all is the doorman, usually an impressively mustached oldster who expects at least 2 rubles (20?) for opening the door, and is in a position to grant favors, for when the restaurant is full he locks the door and reopens it only as the spirit moves him. Literature and Life suggested abolishing doormen...
...comics, Bert Lahr and Nancy Walker are both likable and skillful, and whenever they are permitted to do things instead of being forced to say them-notably in a pantomime of bare-fanged marriage-they are splendid. Lahr in a plane or at a stage door, Walker in a hash house or the Garden of Eden, also have their moments. But too often, though they make their lines brighter, they cannot make them bright. TV's Shelley Berman does nicely in a character-part telephone monologue, but falls flat as a straight man, and the rest of the show...
...State Hospital, overlooking the seaway then abuilding, were all agitated and ill at ease, and one was frantic. A housemaid from Alabama by way of Chicago, she rushed up to the nurse supervisor, shouting: "Mrs. Holmes has gone crazy-crazier than we are-she won't lock the door!" As a matter of fact, Attendant Irene Holmes was doing just what the doctor ordered. First, the doors of individual wards, then of whole buildings, were being unlocked and left unlocked for lengthening periods up to twelve hours...
...unwonted freedom seemed also unwanted. Patients like Housemaid Anna, who had been in the hospital for ten years, did not know what to make of it. One man had devoted most of his waking hours during 20 locked-up years to testing every door on his ward, trying to get out: when he found them all unlocked, he refused to leave, for fear that he would not be able to get in again. It took him two weeks to get used to the return of freedom...