Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That was a fine article on Humphrey Bogart [Feb. 7], one of America's greatest actors. Never has the idolatory of such a cult been so deservedly bestowed. The uncommon good sense of the Harvards is very encouraging...
...profits, and associates, who are paid salaries. With 24 partners and 47 associates, the Nixon firm barely ranks among New York City's 20 biggest. At the top in size is Shearman & Sterling, with 158 lawyers. Outside New York, firms with as many as 50 lawyers are uncommon: there are five in Philadelphia, five in Houston, four in Chicago, four in Cleveland, two in Los Angeles, one each in Washington, Boston and San Francisco...
Thus fact and fantasy interweave in this first feature by Writer-Director Curtis Harrington. Shot along the Southern California beach front on a $75,000 budget, the film emits an uncommon glow of freshness and imagination. Harrington daringly chose to unfold his realistic tale of suspense as if he were Edgar Allan Poe with a megaphone, and most of the time the experiment succeeds. He heightens reality, giving a nightmare quality to commonplace events. Soon even the ripple of bath water begins to sound ominous. In one scene, punctuated by echoes, the pilings under an old pier are transformed into...
...lower left chambers. Without such an operation, Mrs. Mauldin was not likely to live long. But the N.J.H. surgeons found they could not operate because Patient Mauldin would need transfusions during surgery, and she had rare, unmatchable blood: type A (common), but with a subfactor known as RL² (uncommon) and two other mysterious subfactors which, together, would destroy any blood that she might receive by transfusion. Reluctantly, the N.J.H. surgeons sent Lila Mauldin home...
Death today is uncommon, occurring in isolation from generally one of two causes--accidents, or what we consider some kind of probability error, an unlucky break which leaves the victim with incurable cancer. Although no American expects to live forever, an element of fatalistic thinking which marked men's attitudes in the past has disappeared in America. The inevitability of death is underplayed; however, this may be part of a larger attitude toward disbelief in the inevitability of anything--we have geared ourselves to a rapidly changing, technological en-environment in which literally any-can happen...