Word: rutted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Picnic is a good play to see. It is both well-written and well-executed. There is nothing in it, however, that will lift one out of the commonplace rut and place him in another frame of existence. Neither are there characters on the stage who would exist only in an author's well-constructed, never-existent world. To do this, Mr. Inge would have to be an artist. Instead, he is a talented censor, able to sort and to rearrange the various trivia of living, conversation and action, combining a significant grouping of these, to create an excellent reproduction...
...paper had shook itself somewhat out of the rut decried by the 1909 president. Action pictures replaced illustrations and the typographical format was livened...
...Rut. In San Francisco, when a youthful gunman walked into his store. Liquor Store Operator Thomas Lagios groaned: "Oh. no. not again' was told: "Yeah, again." by the bandit, who cleaned the cash register of $64, ordered Lagios into a back room where he piled ten cases of beer on top of him-for the second time in two days...
...stag to his death. The most effective device, the bleater, is a small rubber squeezer, ball-shaped and equipped with stops. Properly manipulated, the bleater emits a "pia" like the cry of a newborn roe; it also trills a realistic "fiep," simulating the call of a doe in rut. The bleater instruction sheet suggests that the hunter render the fiep with "trembling hands," then promptly swing his gun to his shoulder and brace himself for the charge of a romantic roebuck...
...rehash of The Mature Mind. Entitled "Equipment for Maturing," it might be subtitled "First Aid for the Ego." Twisted into neurotic shapes by parents, bosses and competitive tensions, the modern ego is forever ailing, Overstreet suggests. The big trouble is that modern man is in an introspective rut. The cure: "We must, so to speak, go beyond ourselves in order to find ourselves . . . Mental unhealth ... is to be overcome by the overcoming of faulty interpersonal relations...