Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joseph struggled to his knees, looked wildly about him. As he did so, the biggest lion sank its teeth into his neck. When police arrived, they flooded the pit with tear gas to drive away the lions, but it was too late: Joseph was dead...
...energetic young corporal named Samuel Adler wanted to form an orchestra of musicians who were languishing in other Army jobs, General Eddy was enthusiastic, put his three-starred authority fully behind the venture. The following summer the outfit made a tour of Germany and even hired itself out as pit orchestra for a production of The Marriage of Figaro at the Passau festival...
...hand at dairy farming in the years following the war. Commenting on this venture, he laments, "After a year, the cows began to die more and more rapidly; in fact, all the livestock was sick. The barn floor began to crumble, and the whole thing became a bottomless pit which nothing could fill." He now compromises with a small cabin in the New Hampshire woods. And a few times a year he is lured to a local movie, but returns each time reassured that he can do without the film industry...
...Pit of Loneliness (Arthur Davis] is a sensitive and conscientious movie about life in a girls' school, with muted undertones of Lesbianism. In psychological understanding, it is superior to the famous picture with a similar theme, Madchen in Uniform (1931); and in the use of movie means to complex ends, Directress Jacqueline Audry (Gigi) almost equals, in some passages, the achievement of the great German horror story...
...cote de Mlle. Julie, the others devoted to Mlle. Cara-all innocently, giddily suspended in the nameless tension of the emotional contest. As it fills every room and scene with the breath of girls in the bud, with an air of girlish whispers, forbidden perfume and muffled laughter. Pit of Loneliness falls nothing short of magic...