Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gotta Stay Happy (Rampart; Universal-International) is a harmless and mildly entertaining little movie-unless it is butterfly-broken on the wheel of Social Significance. * It has lost none of its gloss in translation from a slick-magazine serial to the screen. Smoothly mounted, directed and acted, it is a pat little story about a painfully earnest flyer (James Stewart) who is running his small-time airline straight into bankruptcy. Then he takes aboard a runaway millionheiress (Joan Fontaine...
While Superman represents the outer limits of fantasy in the current crop of radio thrillers for the kiddies, Captain Midnight's show contains features common to most of the quasi-credible serials. The hero is surrounded by at least two youthful subordinates, and usually has a humorous character whose harmless stupidity serves as a foil for the heavy witticisms of the others. Villains are either petty and dumb, or sinister and intelligent...
...intentions were not of a destructive nature. We meant only to leave a harmless sign of Brown spirit upon your campus. We honestly did not know that we picked a building that is so valuable and so cherished by your University...
Evil Spirits. From earliest times through the Middle Ages, mental illness was taken to mean that the victim was "possessed" by evil spirits. For centuries people with abnormal mental quirks were either revered, treated as harmless "naturals," or chained, flogged or burned at the stake...
...Army at first stamped "psychoneurosis" on the discharged man's medical record. When the "pn" label scared off prospective employers, Dr. Will had the policy changed: after February 1945, the record of a man discharged for mental cause carried such whizzbang-medicalese -stunning but relatively harmless-as "conversion reactions," "somatization reactions," "anxiety reactions...