Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original nucleus had begun to grow and in some ways to change. First, the early productions had drawn increasing support from Bostonians who were willing to support what publicity director Catherine Huntington calls "pure theater with no commercialism, which is attractive to the artist element." The mailing list has come to include 1,200 possible season members ($10) or patrons ($35). So the Theatre has moved onto very solid financial ground...
...reports of irregularities should be investigated. If the reports of irregularities were investigated, I am convinced that the new officers of the club would be given a clean bill of health. If the reports are not investigated by an impartial committee of the club, there will be an element of doubt in many persons' minds concerning the election. John C. Eldridge...
...liberal arts. These second fields may include such subjects as industrial economy or the history of science, which will broaden the student's outlook on problems which he will likely encounter in his later career. Also, M.I.T. administrators expect five-year students to add a liberal arts element to their school's usually technologic atmosphere...
Liebman, 52, says he knows that a scene is good when it gives him "a tingle up and down my spine . . . The tingle is created by some element of beauty." But there is a drawback: "I'm very sentimental, and sometimes I get the tingle from schmalz." Occasionally, the tingle is replaced by a cringe. Says Liebman: "I cringe at bad taste, at inept jokes, at sloppiness or any lack of fastidiousness." This season Liebman cringed during rehearsals of his swing production of Pinafore "because it was too bop. We had the contemporary beat but we had lost Gilbert...
...There is even in the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice. Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self...