Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recommendation for a library checking system is hanging in the balance today as a 295 to 294 vote in favor of the plan was cast, with six ballots still outstanding. The controversial issue was hotly debated at the recent "Cliffe mass meeting, but the final decision will be up to the faculty no matter what the outcome of the vote...
After a year of intensive planning, the Boston Repertory has emerged as a permanent professional theater like London's Old Vic. According to a brochure circulated by the players, the group will offer "provocative plays, completely cast, and produced in accordance with the highest professional standards...
...regardless of whom they favor this year, Faculty members, almost to a man, will cast their ballots on Election Day. Of the 480 replying, 459, or 95.6 percent, indicate that they will go to the polls or cast absentee ballots on November...
...again but again with unusual obstacles. It was made at Republic Studios (home of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry) but on a budget much smaller than that given to horse operas. Welles could not hire any "name" actors for either their experience or box-office, so he chose his cast from radio actors. They didn't ask large salaries and could give beautiful readings of the poetry. He was allowed only one set, so he chose to accent the primitiveness of the characters by setting Inverness in a hollowed mountain. He was allowed only twenty-one days for actual filming...
...results of such an undertaking: a Lady Macbeth that lacks physical majesty and fire and seems instead frenzied and common; a supporting cast that is uniformly excellent, particularly Macduff; a set that gives no feeling of being a habitation at all but does add immeasurably to the rawness of the theme (the hero, as Welles interprets him, is too uncivilized to live in a human dwelling); and finally, an exciting, superior movie with moments of startling brilliance...