Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dennis Johnston's The dreaming Dust, the Poets' Theatre has an imaginative and often appealing play. A re-creation of significant events in the life of Jonathan swift (as seen through the eyes of seven different observers) the play effectively straddles the boundaries of time. Each performer alternates between the role of a detached observer in the present and an important force in Swift's own past. Mr. Johnston handles his theme well, and The Dreaming dust has a quality of both intimacy and unreality, which makes it particularly well-suited to the small stage of the poets' theatre...
...Carl S. (for Swift) Hallauer, 60, was elected president of Rochester's Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. A sports fan and part-time politico (he is known as Rochester's "Mr. Republican"), Hallauer made an early mark in business by setting up one of the country's first employee recreation programs for Eastman Kodak. Bausch & Lomb wanted one like it, hired him in 1919 as industrial relations director, and later salesman. In 1931, he persuaded the late Al Smith to put Bausch & Lomb coin-operated telescopes atop the Empire State Building. In 1935 he was made sales vice...
Like many another dashing Irishman, from Swift to George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde deemed it his destiny to invade England and take London by storm. He succeeded in fulfilling this destiny because he knew that though Britons never yield to force, they are ready to surrender the Bank of England itself to a man who can make them laugh...
...that is Wilde's greatest gift to English literature. Much as he loved to pretend that he was too detached an artist to have "sympathies," every word he wrote shows that he was much too softhearted (and not really intelligent enough) to possess the large hatreds of a Swift or the noisy spites of a Sean O'Casey. If his plays date, it is not because the humor has gone bad, but because the plots are usually as sappy and mawkish as the worst of Dickens...
Without more ado, Surgeon Glenn cut into the chest of Edna, 37, a housewife who had had rheumatic fever at 18 and was now suffering from scarring and narrowing of the mitral valve in her heart. As the scalpel made swift but precise cuts and laid bare a rib, Dr. Artusio asked: "Can you nod your head?" Edna nodded. Dr. Glenn lifted a pair of shears and snipped out the rib. Then he cut deeper, through the layers of the heart sac, until the pulsing organ itself was laid bare. He plunged his gloved finger into it and wiggled...