Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Manhattan audiences witnessed the dramatic fruit of this long, three-cornered friendship, Design For Living-"a play about three people who love each other very much." The erstwhile young Englishman, Noel Coward, had written it and was acting in it. So were Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne...
...situation with which Design For Living concerns itself is somewhat unusual for light comedy-polyandry. Act I, laid in Paris, finds Actress Fontanne as Gilda (pronounced Jilda), an interior decorator vaguely troubled by the uncertainties of life. There are times when she wishes she could believe in "God and the Daily Mail and Mother India." Physiological studies do not wholly satisfy her. ("If you knew what was going on inside you, you would probably be bitterly offended.") In her quandary she is about to switch her allegiance from Otto (Mr. Lunt), a painter, to his good friend, playwriting...
...House that the Philippines, which he visited last autumn, are ready for independence, South Carolina's Hare, H. R. 7233's sponsor, cited these personal observations: "The school is the best index to the character and intelligence of a people. . . . I was greatly impressed with the architectural design of all the school buildings. . . . They are all painted. ... I was further impressed with the lawns, flowers, shrubbery . . . the orderly arrangement of desks and chairs. . . . The furniture was not marred with pencil marks. Placards were placed high on the walls of schoolrooms. Some I noted...
...greatness, his services to his country, and the loss which it has sustained in his death. For the moment it will not seem absurd to praise him as a great moral leader. The customary resolutions will be passed, sermons will be preached, and inevitably a memorial of inappropriate design will be suggested and approved. It is safe to say that only two things will be kept hidden: the qualities in the man which made him so peculiar to his day and place, and the fact that the mood which he represented and already dissolved before his death...
...moment with absent-minded effrontery he is apt to give away a point to the enemy: "Democratic governments drift along the line of least resistance, taking short views, paying their way with sops and doles and smoothing their way with pleasant-sounding platitudes. Never was there less continuity or design in their affairs, and yet towards them are coming swiftly changes which will revolutionize for good or ill not only the whole economic structure of the world but the social habits and moral outlook of every family. Only the Communists have a plan and a gospel. It is a plan...