Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some orthodox psychiatrists have performed thousands of lobotomies, in which a knife is slashed through the cortex, the most essentially human part of the brain. Some do not hesitate to give patients scores or even hundreds of electric or insulin-shock treatments, or to put them in an insulin coma. Alongside these procedures, the red-brick school points out, the use of chlorpromazine and reserpine is gentle. It can make the patient readily accessible if the overworked psychiatrist has a few minutes to practice psychotherapy on him. If psychotherapy can prove its worth even in psychoses, these drugs give...
Television had its own revival when Kraft TV Theater repeated Rod Serling's Patterns, which was first shown a month ago. A study of war to the knife in a large corporation, Patterns employed the same cast (Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, Richard Kiley), to win the approval of those critics who had missed it earlier. But at week's end there was at least one strongly dissenting voice: the Watt Street Journal. In a long, viewing-with-alarm editorial, the Journal conceded the play's dramatic power but expressed shock at its ethical standards and concluded...
...gamesmanship. There was "Kokomo Joe" Sachs, who splashed his hands so freely with talcum powder that he managed to bathe his opponents and the table as well. "The whole joint," recalled one victim, "looked like an explosion in a flour factory." There was Robert Cannafax, who would pull a knife and stab himself in his wooden leg when his game went bad. Everyone knew how to sneeze, scratch, or reach for a towel just as his rival was shooting. But few could imitate bald Onofrio Lauri, who was often accused of polishing his pate and reflecting the table lights into...
...gift whatever for hewing to it. Writing amiable nonsense, he can doubtless be pardoned for never sufficiently thickening his plot; his sin is how sadly he waters his prattle. He permits far too much second-rate-and secondhand-jesting; he should trade in his rubber stamp for a pruning knife. But The Grand Prize merits the classic praise the curate gave his egg: parts of it are very good...
...season with six major assets: Dave Hawkins, who is so good in every event that he could virtually be the coach's whole portfolio; Alan Rapperport in the backstroke; and a block of talent in the free style that must even capture Yale's interest--Jim Jorgensen, Jack (Knife) Edwards, Captain Ted Whatley, and Gus Johnson...