Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snake Pit. Olivia de Havilland as a schizophrenic, in a movingly realistic story about mental illness and mental institutions (TIME...
...Snake Pit. Olivia de Havilland, as a schizophrenic, in a realistic story about mental illness (TIME...
Thanks for your reviews of The Snake Pit and Albert Deutsch's The Shame of the States [TIME, Dec. 20]. They both show our need for better facilities and staffing for our mental institutions. Twice I have been resident in Elgin State Hospital (Ill.) as a patient ... It is my belief that mental illness is no more serious than many other of the serious illnesses such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, and heart trouble...
...final sessions at the Palais de Chaillot inspired yet another figure of speech, less homespun than the Hollander's simile about the New England domestic problem. The scene, said one British delegate, was like Haydn's Farewell Symphony (in which the musicians leave the orchestra pit one by one until only two violins and the conductor are left). "The speeches started in crescendo. Then people began slipping away one by one. At the end there was no one left and nothing...
...Snake Pit. Olivia de Havilland as a schizophrenic, in a movingly realistic story about mental illness (TIME...