Word: essentialist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fever, the beginning of the final extermination of that plague. The history of the Yellow Fever Commission made one of the most exciting chapters in Paul de Kruif's brilliant Microbe Hunters.* In the theatre, Sidney Howard retells it in 29 scenes played without an intermission against an "essentialist"' setting devised by Jo Mielziner. The background of the stage, a flight of stairs surmounted by a sort of cage to represent a laboratory, does not change. A few essential props-a bed, the back flap of a tent, a hospital cot-indicate scenes where necessary. That the most...