Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are, of course, other Bostons within the city; but it would be difficult and probably unkind to impose the idea upon a public whose impressions of the unchanged aspects of American culture revolve about Boston and Brooklyn...
Elizabeth Stearns' directing shows she can make actors move into adequate enough groupings on the stage, but without any clear idea of why they are doing it. She completely fails to understand the rhythms and contrapuntal structure of Chekov's dramaturgy, which help make The Three Sisters the theatrical masterpiece it ought to be, but fails in this production...
...Surely you've got the general idea by now and won't object if we use an abbreviated form for the rest of our calculations. We'll record a game such as the last mentioned by simply saying: Syracuse over Cornell by 55 (58)--the figure in parentheses representing Harvard's advantage at any given point in the process...
...Harvard, stated Lodge, that Roosevelt gave up the idea of naturalism as a career, and where his "interest in people and a sense of public service turned him to political life...
...that, and the work didn't seem the safest in the world. Mostly the young people talked of leaving first, of going up to Ontario where they could work in a factory. And a few oldtimers, generally of Scots origin, themselves admitted it mightn't be such a bad idea. But for the most part, the band of lean and wiry miners hung on in belief that things could scarcely get much worse...