Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout The Sea Gull sounds a deeper note also, telling of human growth and decline. The shallow Trigorin and the histrionic Irina end up playing lotto. But Nina grows, as one superb device reveals: in Act I, performing in a play of Constantine's she speaks his highfalutin but charged lines mechanically; in Act IV she repeats them, makes them live. It is in delimiting his characters without disfiguring them, in acknowledging their souls but questioning their perspective that Chekhov gives to The Sea Gull a kind of ember like glow...
...convivial, well-dressed, well-mannered, interested in one another, argumentative, mildly frustrated. Psychology is a science notably torn by internal dissension, a state of affairs which is only partly due to the fact that it harbors a relatively large number of women. It is the human mind in the act of investigating itself-a tricky business, to which the rigorous methods of other sciences are frequently not applicable. It draws generalizations from large numbers of individuals, and so the problem of statistical evaluation itself creates disagreement...
...ambition to write a serious opera. He fulfilled his ambition just before he died, in the fantastic, melodious Tales of Hoffmann. Today Composer Offenbach's operettas are mostly forgotten. But Tales of Hoffmann still holds the boards in most opera houses, and the famous Barcarolle from its third act is still played by restaurant & café orchestras all over the world...
...When 30 high officers and 16 major oil firms were convicted in Madison, Wis. last January of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Federal Judge Patrick Thomas Stone withheld sentence pending motions for a new trial. Last week, he listened to an argument that the jury's verdict should be set aside because the jurors deliberated the complex case only seven hours, which was not enough time to give each defendant the individual consideration specifically ordered by Judge Stone. Meanwhile, in Washington, a Senate committee, studying a bill to require separation of marketing petroleum from producing, refining and transporting...
...these sweeping recommendations into effect, Paul Walker asked that the Communications Act of 1934 be amended to give FCC authority: 1) to "review, approve or disapprove all Bell System policies and practices promulgated by the central management group"; 2) to "permit regulation of the Western Electric Co. by the FCC as a public utility"; 3) to "fix temporary rates whenever it appears that the return on net book cost is excessive"; 4) "to regulate Bell System financing"; 5) "to limit the scope of Bell System activities to the communications field" (Bell System at various times has been involved in radio...