Word: institutionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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The Curious Savage (by John Patrick; produced by the Theatre Guild & Russell Lewis & Howard Young) tackles a tempting and dangerous theme. The scene is an elegant mental institution, the story chiefly about an eccentric rich widow (amusingly played by Lillian Gish) whose stepchildren want to keep her from disposing capriciously...
Another Dogpatch institution, the Skonk Works, is almost as lethal-scores have been done in by the fumes of the concentrated skonk oil which is brewed and barreled by its proprietor, Big Barnsmell, and his "outside man," Barney Barnsmell. Of the devices which are employed to make life horrible for...
Harvard spends its money wisely today because its officers remain what they have always bee good Yankee businessmen. Petty economics are practical, and in a large institution they add up. Students often attack some of these savings, but even the cities must admit that the Corporation has managed Harvard's...
Open for the Best. President Baker's streamlining did not stop there. To perk up his faculty, he sent some of his professors off for a year of extra study at Harvard. ("What's he trying to do," some Ohioans wondered, "make this a Harvard on the Hocking...
The fact that Brandeis is a coeducational institution certainly does not hurt students' social life. Most of the on campus dances and parties--or just afternoon post-class bull sessions--take place in the dormitory common rooms, a system closely approaching Harvard's.