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...movie trade lingo, a sureseater is a small "art" theater specializing in upperbrow films for upperbrow audiences. The word was originally used to suggest that every seat is sure to be filled. A skeptical Hollywood crack favors another interpretation: whenever you go, you are sure to get a seat. Last week the Hollywood joke rang hollow; having grown in a year from 226 to 270, U.S. sureseaters were booming. Symptoms...
...whole nation wasn't sick by any means, but there were a few sore spots that needed treatment. In Government lingo, these are known as Grade E areas, with a "very substantial labor supply," which is another way of saying that more than 12% of the workers are out of jobs...
...began naming a "Psychiatric Aide of the Year." This week the 1948 award ($500 and a citation) went to Milwaukee's Brand. Chief reason why he was picked by a board of judges that included Author Mary Jane Ward (The Snake Pit): he has stopped using "restraint" (hospital lingo for straitjackets, "camisoles," belts, wristcuffs, etc.). In his ward, Brand has been trying kindness and reasonableness instead...
Dealing Death, In detail, The Brave Bulls is alive with precise knowledge: of the moods and lingo of bullfighters, the atmosphere and routine of a great Mexican breeding ranch, the elaborate ritual of the corrida itself. The writing is clumsy in places, but it is also direct, penetrating and sustained; it makes the slicker sorts of professionalism look pointless. And the book is, finally, both religious in its treatment of ultimates and morally eloquent in its strong rebuke for those who scorn any culture but their...
Another announcement was like a bolt striking close at hand, sharply outlining the neighborhood right around home. It came from William Z. Foster and Eugene Dennis, the two top American-born bosses of the U.S. Communist Party. The bold net of their announcement, stripped of its tortuous Communist lingo, was that their primary allegiance belonged not to their homeland but to the U.S.S.R. If war came, they and all faithful Communists would be on the side of Russia...