Word: dorothea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gills are not very eccentric; neither are they hobos in the accepted sense of the word. John Gill, at 66, is a former member of the board of directors of the Atlantic Refining Co. His wife, who is 15 years younger, is a cultured Philadelphia matron. In 1951 Dorothea Gill persuaded her husband to retire and take a short trip to Europe. The trip lasted four years, and the Gills discovered that they saw and learned a great deal more by walking than riding. So they walked...
...around ten miles on foot in an average day, have no use for timetables, spend as much-or as little-time as they wish in each town. Although they are well heeled, the Gills live and travel modestly: whenever possible, they look for a place with cooking facilities, and Dorothea Gill prepares the family meals...
...institution's centenary. The play is being performed before large Washington audiences this week, was seen by TV viewers last week in a 17-minute cut-down version. Cry of Humanity was a monument to Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-87), the New England schoolteacher who crusaded from Newfoundland to Louisiana for the "moral management" of the insane, persuaded Congress to open St. Elizabeths...
Conceived by Dance Therapist Marian Chace, Cry of Humanity was quickly taken over by the patients. They picked the life of Dorothea Dix for its theme; it was they who insisted .on showing scenes from her early years-because they wanted to show the root causes of their heroine's own neurosis. The curtain went up on Dorothea as a nine-year-old drudge doing chores for her invalid mother (who was 20 years older than her minister-husband). Before a shabby house in Hampden. Me., neighbor children chant tauntingly: "Dorothea can't play." Not until...
Besides such episodes, the patient-playwrights included ballets, because they thought the dance could express feelings (in Dorothea Dix's dreams of fear and desolation) that they could...