Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collegiate pattern of life in pre-diploma days, be expected to defend undergraduate realism. A year off the campus and the average alumnus is more apt to remember the good time he had a such and such Christmas formal, the weekend of the Purdue, game, or in the Mask & Wig show rather than the fact that during exam weeks he ordinarily lost ten pounds and annexed a few grey hairs. It is the same with college grads in a studio conference. Confessing no serious intent, they strive to put as much entertaining frivolity as possible in the scenario-dramatizing college...
...dignified quiet and semi-obscurity in which it has been thriving, the Classical Club stalks majestically to the center of the stage with mask in place and haughty eye fixed on a spell bound audience. In these happy days of celebration the voice that was the voice of Rome sounds a proper and pleasing note, and in presenting Mostellaria sincerely and accurately the present pays fitting tribute to the past which has given it so much...
Asked for an explanation, Senator Black replied: "We've subpoenaed all telegrams of these gentlemen who conceal themselves behind organizations and groups in order to determine the policies of the nation behind a mask...
Henry Louis Mencken: Tweedledum and Tweedledee are still twins, even when one wears the cold mask of Hoover and the other the professional smile of Roosevelt. Herbert Hoover: We have complete confidence in the American people...
...body speak for itself. Average theatre audiences can appreciate a Humphrey-Weidman recital, see frequent glimmers of a plot that can be translated into words. Though Martha Graham is intent on typifying the U. S. spirit, she is more consistently abstract. Her face is like a mask when she dances. For Frontiers her principal gesture is to raise one leg, rest it on a fence (see cut p. 53). Her intention is to give the effect of space, of peaceful contemplation. Jumps into the air mean joy, a collapse to the floor implies grief or destruction. In Horizons, her latest...