Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news: foreign shipments of meat have been so minuscule (aside from those for the armed forces), that not much more will be available for civilians anyway...
...spirit. Granted that the cues were a little behind-time, that the stage-lighting was elementary and on Wednesday night a source of innocent merriment, that some of the first characters to appear rattled off their lines too fast so that the audience decided they couldn't follow it anyway and didn't try, the lines of the main actors came out with clearness, force, and elegance, (to use Barrett Wendell's trilogy of requirements for writing a phrase which is a nutshell still unrivalled). Beatrice was has bewitching a heroine as ever roadway has produced, and her startling line...
...Much Ado About Nothing" is by all odds-or most odds anyway-much livelier and much funnier than many of Shakespeare's other comedies, like "The Taming of the Shrew" and "As You Like It," that are produced more frequently. It is surprising that it is so rarely done, and Jane Cowl, riding in on the Harvard Dramatic Club's tailstream, is reported to be readying a production of "Much Ado" for Broadway next season. The play has not appeared in Boston since 1930, when the Stratford-on-Avon players did it and got good notices...
...says it's not trying to recapture the petty minutiae of the sixteenth century anyway. Shakespeare does mean something quite unacademic today, and the Dramatic Club aims to keep him alive. Theodore Spencer and Fritz Jessner have accomplished the revitalization, with a blue pencil. The Elizabethans loved the long speeches, but modern movie-trained audiences would walk out on them...
...What is the release, anyway?" the political scientist was asked...