Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tributary began in 1940, under the direction of Eliot Duvey '26, and with the financial aid of the Community Recreation Service. For the past three years, however, it has been completely self-sustaining. It has no stock company, there are only five paid employees, three of whom frequently act in the plays. The other actors, in their daylight hours, follow the more respectable pursuits of the business and household world, emerging at night under the warm magic of the footlights into quite different creatures. During the past eight seasons the Tributary has introduced many spectators to little-known plays...
...audience settled down to enjoy at least a good laugh. This little scarecrow figure who closed the score before he started to play looked as if he might furnish some fun. But by the end of Act I, they were on their feet, cheering. At 19, Arturo Toscanini had won his first ovation as a conductor...
...around. At a rehearsal of his all-Debussy concert a month ago, he was flushed with a fever of 102 degrees. His friends tried to persuade the old man not to conduct, but he was insistent. Said he, as he trudged out to the podium: "Sometimes I must act like Toscanini...
...must always be of grave concern to Christians, on account of the ethical dilemmas that arise when what began as a 'just' war comes to assume a more dubious countenance . . . We would therefore emphasize the duty that is laid upon Christians of refusing to participate in any act of war which they are morally certain is wrong...
Were the cold parents freezing their children into schizophrenia? Dr. Kanner did not say yes or no; but he has found no case of infantile autism among children of "unsophisticated" parents. Said he of his pathetic patients: "Their withdrawal seems to be an act of turning away . . . to seek comfort in solitude...