Word: pits
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...bazaar of haggling, blue-coated boatmen ferrying several thousand eager customers crossriver to the prison district of the Clink, where the playhouses had retreated from puritanical city magistrates. The fops gossiped and smoked onstage. Jostling one another and munching sausages in the penny standing room of the pit were the groundlings and "stinkards," men who had unfurled canvas with Drake, but could not read or write. From next door at the Paris Garden came the snarls of mastiffs as they leaped at the throat of Harry Hunks, a chained bear that snapped at them with his sawed-down teeth...
Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women all above. But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends'. There's Hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit, Burning, scalding, stench, consumption, fie, fie, fie! Pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination...
Died. Frank Silver (born Silverstadt), 58, longtime drummer and conductor of vaudeville-pit orchestras, who in 1922 collaborated to turn the cry of a Long Island Greek fruit peddler, "Yes! We have no bananas," into a song worth nearly $70,000-most of which he lost in the 1929 stock-market crash, and failed to recover in 75 lesser-known pop works, -such as Icy-Wicky-Woo and What Do We Get From Boston? Beans, Beans, Beans; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Brooklyn...
Crack in the Mirror (20th Century-Fox) was produced by Darryl Zanuck, a great man for the special angle. As production boss of 20th Century-Fox, he made plenty of splash and cash with controversial pictures about insanity (The Snake Pit), anti-Semitism (Gentlemen's Agreement) and the color line (Pinky). Since setting up as an independent producer, he has made or sponsored films about interracial romance (Island in the Sun), impotence (The Sun Also Rises), homosexuality (Compulsion), and a man who was crazy about elephants (The Roots of Heaven). In Crack in the Mirror, a murder meller made...
From the vast snake pit of Manhattan's Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, Drs. Emanuel Messinger and Benjamin Apfelberg reported that, of 57,000 lawbreakers ex amined over 25 years, a scant 5% had ordinary mental illnesses rated as treat able. Most of the rest were, in some de gree, what psychiatrists call psychopaths or sociopaths - individuals whose consciences are either lacking or inert, and who choose to do what they want when they want. These are notoriously the patients with whom psychiatry has the least success. And in many courts, psychopathy is excluded from the catalogue of mental illnesses that...