Word: periodic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Marie A. Capitanio and John A. Kirkpatrick of St. Christopher's Hospital for Children followed deprivation-dwarfism patients over a period of months, carefully comparing X rays of the children's skulls with those of more normal children. They report that the widening sutures are far from being warnings of trouble. While the Philadelphians are still not certain, they believe that the children's widening sutures are being expanded by the youngsters' healthy, growing brains...
...Pantevin, informs Costals that because of his novels she envisions him as her spiritual savior; when he advises her to see her priest, she goes mad. Another, Andrée Hacquebaut, sets a new record in passionate penmanship for the mails (some 200 letters over a period of two years), first offering Costals her provincial, literate, blue-stocking soul and finally her awkward 30-year-old body...
...unless more radical changes could be made, producer Cohen decided to postpone the opening indefinitely, with all performances in New York designated as "previews" until he considered Dear World ready for an opening before critics. While critics accept this practice of previews as an addition to the road tryout period, they could not abide by Cohen's plan to play the unfinished show into the distant future before paying audiences. Several of the first-nighters threatened to show up at the show unannounced one night and write reviews for the next morning. To head this off, Cohen finally...
Occasionally, productions with mixed or bad out-of-town reactions are transformed into big hits during the tryout period. Jerome Robbins (director-choreographer of West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof) was called in to doctor A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Funny Girl. Both times he achieved the miracle. Any Wednesday had a disastrous tryout, with many different directors and a leading man who walked out shortly before the New York opening. It ran two years on Broadway...
...confusion began three days later, when Finch unexpectedly announced that the districts could have a 60-day "grace" period: if they would integrate their schools within the 60 days, they would get all their Federal funds back--including those withheld during the grace period. Finch's move was unprecedented; Democratic cut-off decisions had never allowed the school districts to recover their lost funds retroactively...