Word: occurence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of the expensive production is done competently. Oliver Smith's sets are remarkable. They aren't set up behind a curtain; they drop from the sky! Irene Sharaff's costumes are lavish. Hangings occur right on stage. So does a shark, a wonderful bear (Charles Morrell), and an earthquake. This is engineered by director Tyrone Guthrie whose crowd scenes are especially smoothly run. If technical competence were all that mattered, the play would be a success...
...Hygiene Department in its report to the President of the University. During the past year, 13 students became ill with "major psychoses" such as schizophrenia and manic-depressive reactions, and were committed to mental hospitals. Three students, none of whom were under psychiatric care here, committed suicide. Anxiety neuroses occur the most frequently, and what are known as "affective disorders" next most frequently. Alcoholism involved five people, and drug addiction none. Interpersonal problems were frequent...
Though it may have lost excitement with the years, The Spiral Staircase is still a charming thriller. Along with banging shutters, shadowy figures, unexplained noises, taps on the window, a wine cellar, and doors that open and close by themselves, there occur upwards of half a dozen murders...
...Stevenson] proposals clearly take no account of what would be the result of stopping our tests. Tests of large weapons, by any nation, may be detected when they occur. But any such test follows many months of research and preparation. This means that elaborate tests could be prepared by another nation without our knowledge. By the time we had such knowledge, our present commanding lead could be reduced or even overtaken...
...Broadway Phoenix Theater last week, Irish Actress Siobhan (pronounced Shiv-awn) McKenna brought something a good deal more memorable to it. Her thick-brogued, almost blatantly peasantlike Joan was all drive and no dreaminess. She had an unshakable faith in her voices and her mission because it could never occur to her to doubt them; hers was a kind of fanatic's certitude, not a heretic's defiance, less a refusal to "reason" or listen or obey than the sheerest incapacity...