Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even more reluctant than the states to unlock doors, for fear of damaging incidents and lawsuits. Yet in San Francisco, at the opposite extreme in size from the giant state hospitals, a tiny (14-bed) unit at Stanford Hospital* applies the open-door system with outstanding success. "When we speak of patients as being 'locked up," says the psychiatrist in charge, Dr. Anthony J. Errichetti Jr., "what we really mean is 'locked out'-we are using lock and key to exclude them from society. When we used to put a patient in seclusion, he remained as agitated...
Serve Yourself. In France there are close to 3,000 new self-service grocery stores doing so much business that retailers speak of a "commercial revolution." Many of the stores are independently owned and operated, but the biggest push comes from the chains. France's big Félix Potin chain has already turned half of its 96 stores into self-service markets, plans to convert all its stores to self-service by 1961, reports that sales automatically double when customers realize that they can shop faster, more easily and more cheaply at self-service. Two years ago, Paris...
...bourgeois respectability and a slight leaning toward the left, very few of the films express any moral or spiritual convictions whatever. Nevertheless, Les Vaguistes have their principles. They hate commercialism. They prefer to make pictures on subjects of their own choice. They would rather use unknown actors. "They speak of cinema," says one critic, "as of a religion.'' So far, it seems to be a religion in which demons figure more prominently than angels, but so long as the new cult of cinema can create a ritual as richly moving as Black Orpheus, it will claim its converts...
...drawing room comedy, only with little humor. Even if the cast were superb, all that could hold the audience's attention is the pomposity of Parson Manders' (spiritual advisor to Mrs. Alving) and his inability to contend with Osvald's defense of illicit marriage. At great length, the characters speak to each other seriously, but pointlessly, setting up the few magnificent scenes before the final curtain...
...sometimes happens when TV programs reach for quality, some turned out to be merely earnest bores. On NBC, the Hallmark production of Maxwell Anderson's Winterset proved that the living-room screen can be an embarrassing setting for characters who speak stilted blank verse (with Hamlet echoes) and live amid the topical excitement of another decade. Playhouse go (CBS) chose to grapple with second-rate Shaw, and even an excellent cast-Robert Morley, Claire Bloom, Siobhan McKenna-could not cram the rapid-fire sex and social relations of Misalliance into a really meaningful hour and a half...