Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three-day beat spell drew to a close last night officials of the Metropolitan District Commission warned the huge crowd of students longing by the Charles that a $20 fine awaited anyone with a penchant for a plunge...
...Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist Trude Tietze studied 25 mothers of schizophrenic patients. The mothers of schizophrenics, she reported in Psychiatry, are apt to be "subtly dominating." They never raise their voices to their children; they control by showing a "hurt" attitude, or by having a timely sick headache or fainting spell. The children thus have no chance for open rebellion...
...feelings. Conscious that his roommate would want to know where he had been, he did his best to account for the experience. But the moment was too full--thought was impossible and Vag found the new sensation delightful indeed. He was aware that any attempted thought would break the spell immediately. This was the moment for which he was meant. Dropping deeper into the aesthetic whole, he toyed with one shoelace in an effort to prolong the experience, but all of a sudden, the experience was over. The alarm bell sounded. Time...
...There is no finer spectacle," wrote Potter, "than the sight of the good Lifeman, so ignorant that he can scarcely spell the simplest word, making an expert look a fool in his own subject, or at any rate interrupting him in that stupefying flow, breaking that deadly one upness of the man who, say, has really been to Russia, has genuinely taken a course in psychiatry, or has written a book on something...
...Tempest" is probably Shakespeare's last play and it is certainly the last production by the Theater Workshop. The HTW has amply paid its debt to Shakespeare with this presentation. There's a spell of white-magic over Brattle Hall this week...