Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sidelines, the Modern Language Association listed only four Broadway shows as "highly recommended" for the 5,000 college teachers attending the organization's annual convention during the vacation. J.B. shared this endorsement with Touch of the Poet, Two for the Seesaw, and West Side Story...
...designing a circus maximus that is the finest set of the season. Doing away completely with a proscenium curtain, the set bulges out into the audience. A raked stage boasts a marvelously rhythmic series of ramps and stairs, culminating in a funambulist's platform that doubles as a modern counterpart of the old Greek drama's theologeion. There are ropes and pulleys, and part of the canvas tent...
...choosing the plays, the group sought a balance between classical and modern drama, Aaron said. It will attempt to avoid playing down to its audiences, a mistake, he added, which previous repertory groups have made...
Divinity v. Publicity. He needed these qualities when, on his ascension, he stepped into what he called an "inevitable mess." He learned that for a popular modern monarchy it is not so much divinity as publicity that doth hedge a king, and that for the first time since Queen Victoria's early widowhood, a British king, his mercurial brother, had forfeited the royal immunity from criticism...
...Uncle (French). A wicked satire on mechanized modern living by Jacques (Mr. Hulot's Holiday) Tati, who is probably the funniest funnyman in films, but in this one overdoes his wit by at least 30 minutes...