Word: pit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blood newsreels or nerve-end sensationalism. But both at least point in the direction of reopening the theater to life, action and meaning. Whatever happens, the theatergoer should have a vantage point offered by no other art. He has a right to demand a place in the fire pit of existence, there to behold the spectacle of man in all his folly, pride and spirit...
...hold for the next twelve months, the new president, Dr. Charles Hudson, a Cleveland internist, counseled moderation. "There are people who think doom is going to fall in on us," he said. "I think this opinion is not justified. We are not stepping off the brink into a bottomless pit of professional destruction and despair." He proposed that doctors "make the most of this new program." If they do, he suggested, they may help "prevent its extension toward a national health service...
...middle of the octagonal bean pit in Chicago's Board of Trade, hundreds of beige-jacketed traders snouted and jabbed out hand signals to make their trades. Amid the pandemonium, messengers dashed about picking up written confirmations. In the offices of the commission houses, clerks clocked up overtime hours; at one firm they slept only three hours in three days...
While the stock market has been drifting sidewise, another exchange has been moving at a furious pace. At Chicago's Board of Trade, biggest and busiest commodity market in the world, pit brokers have perspired through two weeks of record business. On one day, they traded an alltime-high 270 million bushels of wheat, corn, oats, rye and soybeans-an amount almost three times greater than last year's average. Twice the market's opening had to be delayed an hour in order to catch up on paper work, something that had never happened before...
...playing the title role in Mame, the musical-comedy version of Patrick Dennis' novel-play-movie. Mame is Broadway's top musical hit of the season, and 40-year-old Angela Lansbury, the woman all moviegoers remember as a worn, plump old harridan with a snake pit for a mouth, is the liveliest dame to kick up her heels since Carol Channing opened in Hello, Dolly! three years...