Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the help of good acting, the play has scenes of frightening power. But it highlights the behaviorism of junkies rather than the psychology, and ends up more a scare piece than a genuine study. Its naturalistic manner is drapery rather than flesh; it simply gives a New Look and a domestic air to melodrama. The melodrama itself is never stinted: the dope peddlers, for example, pay off as theater but bulk much too large for a serious problem play...
...parts of the country and play all kinds of football before registering here. Many are entirely unfamiliar with the Harvard single wing offense. Discussing preliminary plans at the start of the season, Margarita pointed out that "many of these boys will have to be taught to play in a manner entirely foreign to them. We're going to work on fundamentals and then work some more...
...this new type of secondary school, Lopez said, students would travel from building to building, "losing much of their individuality in the process." Instead, he proposed adoption of the "group type" school, where the students would remain in one classroom and teachers bring necessary facilities to them. In this manner, he continued, students learn from each other and more fully develop their individuality...
...settings bare and shabby as they may be, are actually quite suitable to the situation of the drama, and the same sort of remark about the costumes can be excused in the same manner. Nevertheless, the staging seems at least to suffer from the same element of slapdash that injures the whole...
...rounds after a rabbit, finds Harry lying there with a little round blood spot on his forehead. "Oh, my!" he exclaims, for it is not hunting season. He is about to dispose of the evidence when the village spinster (Mildred Natwick) strolls by and. noticing Harry's distant manner, inquires politely, "What seems to be the trouble?" The captain explains, and the lady is most understanding. Their eyes meet. She blushes and offers him tea and a sympathetic muffin-after work...