Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Ireland in his little coracle the missionary-saint, Columba, sailed to the isle of lona in the Inner Hebrides, off Scotland's west coast. There, in 563 A.D., on lona's misty, rainy four square miles, he established a base in the great Celtic Christianizing that swept eastward from Ireland to Britain, across to the Continent - and as far south as Vienna...
...inner core of lona is still the Community, composed of the ministers who enroll for the two-year course of training and pledge themselves to devote half an hour each morning to prayer and Bible-reading. All members also seek to keep their personal expenditures down to Britain's national average income-$720 a year for a single man, $320 more for a married one, plus $240 for each child. Members' accounts are kept openly and discussed among themselves at regular intervals-items over and above the national average can be justified if they are "for the glory...
...except the experts, who wish they didn't. Doctors know little about its cause (they prefer to call it "motion sickness," since car, air, and seasickness are the same thing). They think it may result from nerve impulses touched off by the sloshing about of fluid in the inner ear's semicircular canals. At least four people in ten are susceptible to motion sickness, some so readily that watching a tennis ball in play, spinning on a stool, or even hearing a sea voyage mentioned turns their stomachs. Most people, after a few days or a week...
...Opener. For a common type of deafness-resulting from blocking of the inner end of the Eustachian tube by abnormal growth of lymphatic tissue-Dr. John E. Bordley of Johns Hopkins described a new treatment: radioactive bombardment. If done early, before the blocking tissue hardens, irradiation with radium opens the tube, restores normal hearing...
Costumes and settings met the standard, too. Employing the familiar inner and outer stage technique for the 18-scene drama, Directress Mary Howe used a simple method with startling effectiveness in scenes of poverty and grandeur alike. And Catherine Huntington's costumes--wherever she searched them out--were rich and 17th century...