Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dentistry" to "General Semantics and the Teaching of Physics." Doctors, using general semantics, have claimed it helped cure everything from alcoholism to frigidity. There are General Semantics Societies in twelve cities from Winnipeg to Sydney. Sample members: Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, President George Stoddard of the University of Illinois, Actor Fredric March...
...musician, the actor, the interpreter of other's work--he is important only because he is a personality, only because we can see him, hear him, associate with him. In short, he is a responsible member of the world community along with the rest of us, because his sole contribution to art and culture rests entirely upon his physical presence. Here we can draw the line; here we can say that as an individual "you have failed, therefore you may not perform before us--others will do just as well...
Medina, who looks like Movie Actor Adolphe Menjou, stopped rocking occasionally to advise the lawyers: "Start sawing wood." Deadpan, Judge Medina listened to a tearful outburst on racial discrimination from Counsel George Crockett. The next day when Crockett, a bespectacled Negro, said that he regretted weeping, Medina advised: "It is generally better for counsel to refrain from weeping in the courtroom . . . And I understand you promise not to do it again...
...dilettante. Actually, as Kiss Me, Kate proves better than any of his previous work, he is one of the most thoroughly trained musicians among U.S. popular composers. He is as painstaking a craftsman as any. He is no less rigorously professional in his approach to what his good friend, Actor Clifton Webb, calls "the perfectly regulated life...
Richard Whorf, who plays Richard, gives the impression of an actor with intelligence and talent, and an apparently urgent need to relieve the kidneys. He whirrs through his lines at a speed that soon passes all understanding. Though each word is clearly pronounced, even telegraphed, the audience soon falls exhausted by the wayside while Mr. Whorf races on. The listener does not feel cheated as much as incompetent on his own part. In a few moments of ironic humor, Mr. Whorf is very good...