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Word: enactment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unpleasant experience of two years ago, when she had needlessly hurt her father's feelings with something she said. When she had finished, the doctor told her to go through it again only correcting her errors this time. "How many of us do not wish we could re-enact something in the past and do it right? Psychodrama gives that opportunity. You see, we started out this afternoon with caricature and now we warm up and have some very tragic psychological problems presented...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Dike Plug. In Denver, after brooding over some serious problems in law enforcement, Judge Frank Hickey asked the city council to enact a statute making it illegal for prisoners to escape from jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: For the Record | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Rumanian group has also worked to enact the sweeping social changes planned by the new government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA Discloses Student Life Abroad | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...authoress-movie director, Nicole Vedrès, was shooting a film with an all-star cast: Painter Pablo Picasso, Novelist André Gide, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, Architect Le Corbusier, Writer Jacques Prévert, Atomic Scientist Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Their roles required them to enact themselves at work and at play, chatting about what the world was coming to. Said Picasso, who played quiet scenes with Gide (see cut) and mugged with Prévert: "We had a terrific time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Elsinore's rugged Kronborg Castle, setting of Shakespeare's Hamlet, still makes traveling players as welcome as its most famed tenant once did. Since 1937, Denmark has been inviting foreign troupers to re-enact the tragedy right at the scene of the crimes. (Among its title-role guests: Sir Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud.) Next week, at the latest revival, Elsinore's visiting players will have traveled for the first time all the way from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Actors Are Come Hither | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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