Word: lying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large, however, the community is a closed one. Members are carefully chosen on the basis of their work and are given funds with which they can spend a year at the Institute. With the new community of modernistic, utilitarian houses which have been recently completed and lie within a short walk of the Institute and its few seminars and office buildings, almost all members may live on the school's location...
...unfolded like a mystery story, beginning with the girl's arrival at a hospital psychiatric ward, developing as the staff ferreted out the causes of her malady, reaching a high pitch of suspense with an attempt to make her hear again through the ingenious use of a lie detector and the shock of an emotional confrontation. Under Sidney (Twelve Angry Men) Lumet's direction, the play combined compassion and extraordinary visual impact in scenes in which the mute father and mother flung their feelings into sign language-taught to the actors by a specialist-and the brother (well...
...period of transition is not quite over; here and there a steam engine survives. In the meantime the fan movement has been scurrying desperately to store up tape recordings, photographs and other mementos for the dark, steamless days that lie ahead...
...administrational assistant of the School of Education, George T. Sizer, predicted last night that Lawrence Hall, Batchelder House, and Peabody House would have to be torn down. Describing these buildings, which lie between Litauer and New Lecture Hall, as "wrecks," he explained that their destruction would provide "plenty of room" for both an Education and a Behavioral Sciences Building...
...band of armed robbers climb a hill near the mouth of the Nile and stare down at an awesome sight. A richly laden but crewless merchant ship is moored near shore, the remains of a banquet lie scattered along the beach, and all around sprawl the bodies of slain men. Only two are alive: a badly wounded young Greek named Theagenes, who is being tended by Charicleia, a girl so beautiful that the brigands think she must be a goddess...