Word: acte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...characters no longer walk in mincing steps, or tuck their hands in their sleeves, movements characteristic of China rather than Japan. The fireflies that spangled the night sky during the love duet in Act I have been abandoned (there are no fireflies during the cherry-blossom season) ; though Puccini's gonglike orchestral effects are kept, the onstage gong that signaled the wedding is out (gongs are sounded at Japanese funerals). Cio-Cio-San no longer punches holes in the shoji (paper screen) walls of the house to watch for Pinkerton's return-for the good reason that...
...Act Your Age. At first, no one knew exactly how to treat him. When he shyly sat down in the men's bar of the King's College student union, it took all his eloquence to persuade the union president that he did indeed have a right to be in a place reserved "for students only." Once a porter tried to bar him from an examination, gruffly told him to act his age when McNair protested that he was an undergraduate. His classmates opened and closed doors for him, insisted on calling him "sir." His professors felt they...
...suppose we could do it?" Social Studies Teacher Hugh Ansley, 24, a traditionalist at heart, thought about it overnight, next day, with his class's backing, decided to give it a try. For the next seven weeks, his civics students were to act as much as possible like little Russians, but without the indoctrination...
...times, well-used gags and trademarked nitwitticisms that made her vaudeville's, radio's and TV's longest-suffered, best-loved wife. Her Irish father, a song-and-dance man from San Francisco, named her Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalia Allen, and at three, Gracie joined his act in top hat and red whiskers. In 1922, after hunger had urged her into secretarial school, she caught the down-at-heel act of George Burns (real name: Nathan Birn-baum). George promised to feed her, even became her foil when Gracie got all the laughs. They were married...
...since none was effective, they switched from one to another and clung pathetically to each in turn: 1) projection (insisting that all women would be promiscuous if they dared); 2) denial ("It's not sex"); 3) reaction formation (taking refuge in opposites, i.e., if homosexual, they tried to act heterosexual; if dependent and passive, they tried to act independent and aggressive); 4) self-abasement, amounting to masochism and self-destructiveness...