Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these adornments to offset his central theme and prove that life has at least two sides, Author Rosten has ended up with a novel that suffers from cute appendicitis. Captain Newman, M.D. is really two books, intertwined like medicine's caduceus, at its best considerably better than The Snake Pit, at its worst a fun-house chortle hollowly echoing See Here, Private Hargrove...
...Phenix has denounced the one great fundamental of education as the snake that has led us all to doom. Somehow he fails to see that self-realization, far from being morally shallow and a goal that produces "a democracy of desire," is the one most noble and difficult task of our lives. To Phenix, self-fulfillment is equated with selfish ambition, acquisition and success. It is obvious that he has distorted the meaning of fulfillment...
Brecht on Brecht. The phone is a coiled snake, and the woman (Viveca Lindfors) picks it up fatalistically, as if she had already been poisoned by its venom. Her manner is calm, but her voice is brittle with inner hysteria. She cancels a bridge date, calls off a movie date. The talk is bright and chatty, but these are not social calls. The woman is foreclosing her life...
...served as house comic in a burlesque hall, gave a snake-oil spiel for a stunt-driving show, and worked the circuit as a comic diver-but when he was ordered to plunge 90 ft. into a 7-ft. tub of water, he quit, saying "Look. I'm getting $16 a week, and that won't even pay for the iodine." His first big-time comedian's job came at Manhattan's Club 18. a downstairs bin where everybody on the staff took part in the act. even the waiters and chef. One day Hollywood...
...varsity track team overwhelmed M.I.T., 76 1/2 to 27 1/2, last night, in an absolutely overwhelming meet in the Snake Pit. Coach Bill McCurdy was saving his front-line performers for Saturday's epochal clash with Manhattan, so the times, heights, and distances were none too great. But then, they didn't have...