Word: framed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heartbreak House" was written during the first World War when Shaw was in a particularly pessimistic frame of mind and admittedly inspired by Chekov's "The Cherry Orchard." Heartbreak House is built in the likeness of a ship and the ship is England, which Shaw saw as headed for the rocks. In "The Cherry Orchard" there is the hope that when the forest is cleared there will be a better world. There isn't this hope in "Heartbreak House." It ends with its people realizing themselves and crying out for annihilation. The meaning of this conclusion is not clear...
...outnumber Negroes 2 to 1. As Virginia's constitution requires, education is "separate"; despite the U.S. Constitution, it is also unequal. King George High School (for whites only) is a modern, red brick building with central heating and inside toilets. King George Training School (for Negroes) is a frame building with stoves and outhouses. The white school taught chemistry, physics, biology, geometry and intermediate algebra; the Negro school had none of these subjects...
...sets by Steven Saxe are the best and most complete that have been seen at Sanders in several years. He has made no concessions to the peculiarities of Sanders and has achieved a picture-frame stage through ingenious use of curtains and cables. The direction of Robert Seaver was commendable. He has done wonders with a play in which pace and timing are essential to success. "Amphitryon" clicks along with complete certainty of purpose...
...notably the Midwest's ill-famed Shelton brothers. On their part, brothers Carl, Bernie and Earl Shelton, who had terrorized southern Illinois before "retiring" as gentlemen farmers on bootleg and slot-machine fortunes, had a soft spot for the Post-Dispatch. It had once found out about a frame-up plot against them in 1926, and they never forgot it. That was fine with the Post-Dispatch. It suspected a tie-up between gambling interests and Illinois Governor Dwight Green's G.O.P. machine just across the Mississippi, and hoped the Sheltons would help prove...
...years ago a group of prominent modern artists living in New York decided to pool their talents into the making of a motion picture. One of them, Hans Richter, devised for it a story-frame on which several dream sequences could be hung, each to be the responsibility of a different artist. The result was a movie called "Dreams That Money Can Buy," which proved so popular at its private showings that it has now been nationally released...