Word: maying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those flung wide throughout the daylight hours. In the early '50s, Pennsylvania rejuvenated its Embreeville State Hospital near Philadelphia, opened its doors in mid-1956. Says Dr. Eleanor R. Wright: "We've had fewer escapes than when the doors were locked. It may not be the best system for every hospital, but it works...
...timetable could be upset by the extent of damage to furnaces during the long shutdown. In some cases, the interior brick linings have contracted and furnace roofs have fallen in. Steelmen waited anxiously for signs of other damage as the heat built up to 3,000°. What may hold repairs to a minimum is the fact that U.S. Steel, Inland and others kept nonunion supervisory staffs in the mills to keep heat in the furnaces and do some of the basic repair work as the damage occurred. The industry will not know for sure until the furnaces start operating...
Career. In this soaper about show business, Sad Young Hero Anthony Franciosa performs ably, but the viewer may puzzle over why the theater so often presents itself as one of the bleeding arts...
...rhythm of the drums drives the actors off into a dance that is forever forming and dissolving and forming again. Seldom has the dance of life been imagined in such barbaric abandon of rhythm and hue, with such generous and innocent delight and reverence for the moment, whatever it may bring. These emotions pour through the film in a torrent and fill the performers, most of them amateurs, with the fervor of the creator's faith. It is a faith in nature, a worship of the sun and everything it shines on. Director Camus has realized in a passionately...
...everything that is said or done." At Radcliffe, Gertrude became Philosopher William James's favorite Schnatterer and roamed the classrooms in uncorseted bliss ("She always seemed to like her own fat," a friend later said). She also experimented in what came to be known as automatic writing. This may have inspired her incantatory rhythms and inane repetitions, though Author Brinnin bristles at the thought...