Word: modernities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...designed the sets for "Mister Roberts," "South Pacific," "A Streetear Named Desire," and "Death of a Salesman," is beyond a doubt America's top scenic designer. His feeling is that "the present method of flying scenery above the stage is still the fastest, most efficient means of shifting. Modern drama is written with flying scenery in mind, and for this reason 'The New Theater' cannot be adapted by the commercial theater for quite some time...
...theater building is as organic a part of a liberal arts college as the library, the laboratory, or the lecture hall. In a sense, it is a laboratory itself, where the great dramas of the Greek, Elizabeth, and Modern Ages may be handled in the container in which their creators intended them...
...What about getting modern music performed? You don't seem much concerned...
...with submarines, airplanes, and the new pursuit of electronic miracles, the science of destruction was in full career, equipped with virtually every basic modern technique "except atomic energy...
...Brattle Theater Company has in the past devoted its efforts to the ancient and modern classics, and perhaps one could say that "The Guardsman" is a classic of that kind, though of a far different cut of cloth. The fiber is weak but the pattern is bright, and the present wearers have given it a remarkable sheen...