Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lose their rights under the Wagner Act if any officer is a communist or active sympathizer...
...vaudeville act, this was fine. But what really set Zurich tongues wagging was a story that Dajo had "proved" to Zurich doctors that his act was not based on fakery. At Zurich University, Dajo's assistant ("He used to be a butcher but I don't mind that") pierced him with a spear which, said Dajo, touched his heart, lungs & kidneys. The doctors, said the perforated Dutchman, were mystified. But to Dajo it was all very simple. "I'm invulnerable. I just don't exist," he chortled...
John Gielgud, who has played Hamlet 1,000-odd times, decided at 43 that he is now too old to act the role any more. He reasoned: "If you take 43 as Hamlet's own age, that makes his mother 60 at the very least. . . and no woman of 60 in her right mind is going to carry on around Elsinore the way that Gertrude of Denmark does...
...learned something about making do in an emergency. On opening night Manno dropped his baton into a crack in the floor just as the curtain was going up and couldn't fish it out. He sent a violinist for something to replace it, conducted part of the first act with the rung of a chair. Said he: "I had to lie down for quite a while afterward before my strength came back...
Imitating v. Analyzing. . . . "We have been confused about education and training. [Training] is a process by which the pupil is taught to perform an act by imitating. [Education] should acquaint the student with ways of analyzing problems . . . he has never seen before...