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Word: modernish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1944-1944
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...modernish costumes helped, too: Hamlet wears trousers instead of tights, delivers "To be, or not to be," in a dinner jacket with silver-brocade lapels. No help at all were the unpoetic sergeants who inevitably shattered the high-tragic mood of the soldier cast's rehearsals, with such prose passages as "Hey, Polonius, you and those other guys get some brooms and clean up the theayter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hamlet in Hawaii | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

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