Word: drawerfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revamped biography of Fanny Brice, here and there belting out a tune as if the lyrics were marching orders. Streisand is still more the enthusiastic personality than dexterous actress. She changes costumes faster than moods, and usually tosses off her lines like a rich girl rummaging through a drawer full of last year's clothes...
...million gift from a disgruntled Yalie--he had offered to fund a Houses system at Yale but had been turned down by the faculty there--in 1926 that allowed Lowell to pull the residential House plan from his top drawer and present it to the faculty as a fait accompli. Not, however, without much opposition. In addition to alumni, the decision produced an uproar among clubbies who had no desire to lose their exclusive status or to live in a heterogeneous situation. Lowell found himself walking a tight political line: he said he wasn't out to destroy the club...
...home he keeps a wide desk drawer stuffed with magazine clippings on automobiles; a lot of these are advertisements and he can quote their slick spiels word for word, including details on dimensions, mileage and extra gadgets...
Impossible as it would be to come up with figures on the number of frustrated playwrights at Harvard who've written works that have never been read, much less produced, buried away amongst their old term papers, such people do exist. In a drawer in the HDC office there is a pile of two dozen scripts, many written by Harvard and Radcliffe students, aching to be read and produced. And a fair number of Hasty Pudding scripts--all of them original--are rejected every year. The Premiere Society has already received manuscripts to consider for future productions. All that...
...past boards have managed to do, such mysteries may become irrelevant. Since theater attracts a larger number of participating undergraduates than any other extra-curricular activity, it is only logical that original work should play a primary role in Harvard-Radcliffe drama, rather than being relegated to a bottom drawer in the HDC office...