Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among creative writers, a couple of "borderline cases" cropped up. Samuel Johnson had hallucinations and delusions (e.g., he believed that eating an apple would make him drunk). When he felt his "madness" coming on, Johnson had his housekeeper lock him in his room and sometimes beat him. Southey, a highly nervous type, had a breakdown...
...actress thus bracketed last week was Celia Johnson, star of such British films as This Happy Breed and Brief Encounter (in which her performance was voted the year's best by New York City's film critics). The occasion: her first stage appearance in five years, as the heroine in the Old Vic production of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan. The reception was unusual for Celia only in that it contained dissent...
Inspected feature by feature, Actress Johnson is a plain woman. Yet her stage presence, dominated by her huge, sorrow-logged eyes; is delicately compelling. Celia is far less dramatic and complicated than she appears. Says her Old Vic director, John Burrell: "Celia always sticks to simple two and two make four." Noel Coward, one of her fondest fans, complains that in her simple contentment "she has to be batted on the head...
...holiday meed will be matuisined by Lowell on Monday night with Ben Johnson's "Epicone." The presentation will be preceded by a House dinner. Puritan asceticism will be set aside temporarily Tuesday as the Winthrop tradition of presidential dinner addresses continues. After his chat, President Conant will be entertained by a performance of "the Compulsory Marriage...
...Louis, the National Council for the Social Studies juggled a hot question: "What shall we teach about Russia now?" William H. E. Johnson of the American Council of Learned Societies helpfully advised teachers to study Russia "objectively," report the findings "honestly." Complained another speaker: How could high-school teachers do all these admirable things when their textbooks on Russia were out of date, and teachers don't know what to believe...