Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The sets and the extras moving through them were so authentic that, after eleven weeks of shooting, the atmosphere on the huge sound stage often became intensely uncomfortable. "Juniper Hill State Hospital" grew as real to the actors' eyes as to the camera's lens. At one point...
The Story. The Snake Pit is the story of Virginia Cunningham (Miss de Havilland) who loses her mind, spends about a year in a state institution, and is released as cured. In the novel, the heroine's illness and its treatment remained undefined. Dramatically compressing the somewhat rambling original...
To the caustic Santayana, Charles Townsend Copeland was a mere "elocutionist" who provided a "spiritual debauch [for] many well-disposed waifs at Harvard." Copey's well-disposed waifs felt otherwise. A shrunken little man, with an actor's sense of staging, he brought literature to life for thousands...
Part of the ECAC eligibility code covering financial aid to athletes was rewritten to read that scholarships can be granted "only if approved and awarded by the regular agency . . . in the recipient's institution . . . and on the same basis that aid is granted to all students."
The ECAC, in passing the new ruling, intends to eliminate the loophole in the "sanity rule"--a loophole that actually allows an institution to aid a needy athlete solely because of athletic ability.