Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...takes place," Johnston said. "What inevitably happens is a compromise. The director never gets the ideal cast, so the play has to be tailored to fit the existing one. The great actor seldom gets the role he has talent to interpret, or even a chance to visualize the role except in terms of his own part...
Discussing thet role of the director, Johnston said, "Fifty years ago there were only actor-managers and stage-managers, but nowadays the director's business is to comment on the play. Actually most people are very quick to assimilate new ideas, except actors--who have a certain thickness of perception which prevents them from being able to comment as well as they should...
...illusion of realism in the theatre is one of the biggest illusions of all. The slice of life is no more real than melodrama, which is considered outdated. To tell the actor to go out on the stage and imagine he's wrestling with an alligator is useless except in a play such as Peter Pan, which is not in the Stanislavsky tradition...
...Except in combat, oil-burning warships generally steam slowly, to conserve fuel. Nuclear ships can cruise around the earth at top speed, and reach their home ports with their nuclear bunkers still undrained. This is an enormous tactical advantage. A nuclear task force can stay at sea for months, always maintaining a speed that makes it a difficult target...
...regulate the number of their children and the intervals between births. But half such couples do not use birth control measures until after at least one pregnancy, and many not until after as many as four pregnancies. Of the women who had not yet used birth control, nearly all (except the subfertile) intended to do so at some future time. Even among Roman Catholics, Dr. Freedman found, 87% of the normally fertile couples had used or intended to use some means of family limitation. "Many," he reported, "use the rhythm method, but many...