Word: inking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perverse sounds of modernist music. At times, the cacophonies seemed to be competing with the harsh melody of Pittsburgh's blast furnaces. Most of it was tried and (often) true music that has been played for the past 25 years, but on some of the scores the ink was hardly dry. Among the musical nuggets...
...occasional fits of depression, Billy reproaches himself and his team for vainglory, for giving the credit to Graham rather than God; he lives in private foreboding that a wrathful Lord may some day punish him by turning his magic lips to clay. In red ink Billy's press releases carry a self-humbling reminder: "Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. Zechariah...
...Graduate School of Business Administration, the Medical School, and the School of Public Health remained well ahead in the black ink columns...
Mauldin's pen & ink infantrymen from Stars & Stripes were a biting commentary on the long-suffering dogfaces of World War II. By surrounding Willie and Joe with a threadbare plot and substituting slapstick for the original's realism, Back at the Front succeeds in making Willie and Joe look more like two-dimensional comic-strip characters than they ever have before...
...some of the actors remaining was doubly difficult. They received offers which would have meant much higher salaries than Brattle could afford. They stayed because of their idealism; producing serious theatre was important and they optimistically thought that in time Brattle would issue financial statements printed with black ink. It never did, and as the deficit grew the ardor began to fade. Members of the original company left for Broadway, the Old Vic, radio, and television. Others gave up theatre completely, leaving only a few to decide whether or not the Brattle will reopen...