Word: welling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JAPANESE EXPORTS of optical products are squeezing Germans out of their market at home as well as overseas. One out of every six microscopes and field glasses sold in Germany now comes from Japan. Japanese optical imports to U.S. last year reached $10.8 million v. $2.5 million from Germany...
...Films. Most Wall Streeters agree that the SEC is understaffed. It has a staff of only 1,000 and a budget of $8,100,000, well down from the peak staff of 1,683 in 1941, when its job was much smaller. But Congress has repeatedly ignored SEC requests for a bigger staff...
...script has been knowledgeably written by Playwright Lee, and directed by Joseph (The Matchmaker) Anthony with a sure sense of the theatrical moment. Actor Franciosa gives much the most coherent performance of his film career and he is fairly well supported by Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine. The main trouble with the picture is the perhaps inevitable one that the characters are so actorish and attitudinous that they come to seem phony, and their problems unreal. They are so passionately and exclusively interested in themselves that the spectator may sensibly conclude that they do not need any interest from...
...normal-looking girl who lives in a private nightmare of someone else's making. This heroine is usually close enough to sanity to be alarmed by her own fantasies, near enough to a strait-jacket to invite immediate psychoanalysis. The familiar formula, which worked almost magically well in Hangsaman (TIME, April 23, 1951). but began to look a bit seedy in The Bird's Nest (TIME, June 21, 1954), still carries a lot of the Jackson punch...
...dances through the house like a dervish at night, comes close to what seems happy suicide. By this time Dr. Montague and the others insist on sending her home, and Eleanor's life ends in one of those terrible scenes of mental horror that Author Jackson knows so well how to contrive. The difficulty is that the story is itself caught in a straitjacket fashioned by the lines of case history. Expert as it is, The Haunting of Hill House is also haunted by too many other novels that owe their life to the father of psychoanalysis...