Word: procession
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...film was shot in Stereovision, a new and allegedly improved process of stereoptical cinematography designed to adapt 3-D to the CinemaScope wide screen. Although the moviegoer still has to wear flimsy and uncomfortable Polaroid goggles that allow the two separate images on the screen to merge in his mind, some improvement is apparent, particularly in the definition of images. The actors still look strangely diminished, far away, unreal, like little plaster figures in a photographed tableau...
Identifying and relating the chemicals involved in this process has been Dr. Nachmansohn's life work. Four years ago, while studying cholinesterase, he stumbled on a chemical, nicknamed PAM, which proved an effective antidote to deadly nerve gases. Now his explanation of how nerves work offers insight into yet another obscure matter: how nerves are deadened by anesthesia. The discovery that such anesthetics as procaine and the Indian poison curare combine easily with the receptor protein, blocking the biochemical reaction, could lead to better anesthetics and more efficient drugs for treating disorders of the human nervous system...
...Happened in Broad Daylight. A slick but effective suspense film written by Swiss Author Friedrich Duerrenmatt (reversing the usual process, he drew his novel The Pledge from the script) in which a psychopath-brilliantly acted by Gert Frobe-and a police inspector glide through frightening shadows...
According to Mr. MacDonald, American culture during the past half-century has been exposed to the same leveling process which has operated on other aspects of American society. A great legion of well-intentioned clods has materialized as a result. This is a legion that threatens to destroy any highbrow culture that remains in this country; for the middlebrow ruthlessly appropriates highbrow literature and cuts it to fit the well-worn grooves of his own mind. The middlebrow belongs to book clubs that describe the Iliad as "Homer's immortal masterpiece"; he thinks in terms of "truth" and "universals...
...middle-of-the-road Republican. Plodding, unspectacular Donald Nutter, 44, seems to be a typical G.O.P. statehouse product. A war hero (B24 piloting in the China theater) turned small-town tractor salesman, stocky, cigar-smoking Don Nutter served two workhorse terms in the state senate, in the process developed from a cautious reactionary to a conscientious, business-minded liberal with a host of friends and supporters throughout the state...