Word: might
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audience, who left during the first act, Jenufa was apparently still too bleak to take. But those who stayed let loose with a volley of bravos for the cast and brilliant Yugoslav Conductor Lovro Von Matacic. It looked as if Composer Janacek, in his slow and tortuous way, might at last be winning the audience that had so long eluded...
...client-John J. O'Rourke, boss of the New York Teamsters-was up for trial on a charge of jukebox racketeering. Greene had already been assigned to cover the trial, and by his account, Curly Harris, who is also a press-agent for Jimmy Hoffa, suggested that it might be worth $5,000 to Greene if he wrote gently about O'Rourke...
...industry-appointed TV "czar" with power to enforce balanced programing. "The concept," said Kintner last week, "is not workable for [television] any more than [for] the newspaper industry or the magazine industry." Kintner did not add the most plausible argument against the idea: the hard-lobbying broadcasters might hamstring a TV commissioner as easily as they have...
Worse even than locked doors was the intimate desocialization and dehumanization of the patients. On admission to most hospitals, they were stripped of their own clothes, allowed only shapeless, unbelted robes and floppy slippers. Wristwatches were locked up (the crystals might be broken and used in suicide attempts). Eyeglasses were removed at night because of the same fear. Even wedding bands were sometimes taken away (the patients might swallow them or drop them down the toilets). Men could not shave themselves. Bathrooms were locked, and patients could not go to them unattended. Knives and forks were banned from the dining...
...Sick Society. Only an insignificant number of patients were disturbed enough to justify a fraction of these precautions. It was society itself that was insecure and full of irrational fears of what the mentally ill might...