Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said: "Hey, didja ever see so many characters in one place?" As the actress recalls it: "Suddenly it struck me-my God, maybe I am crazy. What's the norm? How can you tell?" When the superintendent of nurses at a California institution visited the set, she looked at the sobbing, muttering, staring women and said: "Why, they all look like my own girls...
...circles of hell. Throughout, it preserves the novel's sharply observed minor touches of asylum life-the nurses' way of speaking in front of inmates as if they weren't there (as some adults speak in front of children); the strange snobbery of the sick who look down on their sicker fellows; the large-looming small idiocies of institutional bureaucracy, such as the clean carpet in one ward which must not be stepped on (and the wonderful old woman who jumps on it and dances a defiant Charleston...
This fall the footprints of a big unknown bird were found in the wild mountainous country near Lake Te Anau on South Island. Dr. Geoffrey Orbell, a physician from Invercargill, led an expedition to look for it. They climbed up into the wilderness close to snowline. At last Dr. Orbell saw what looked like a takahe. Battling his excitement he crouched to take a picture while the other members of the party, two men and a girl, crept cautiously around and threw a net over not one, but two takahes...
...Chicago last week the American Academy of Dermatology and Syphilology got a pointer from Temple University Psychiatrist O. Spurgeon English: look for emotional troubles in a patient with eczema. "He cannot weep but his skin weeps for him. Eczema patients are usually depressed, and long for love, but they can't stand love when they get it." Love, English summarized, "is an itch one can't scratch...
...easily got in the way of acting as though the Lord on high were dead ... as though everything took the form of our outlook, our insight and foresight, our Christian endeavor to get right with God and our neighbor. No wonder we become so nervous and fearful when we look at the world's disorder-like Peter when he looked at the stormy waves in which he was destined shortly to sink...