Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure, the play hasn't a very giddy or glamorous look. It all takes place in the backyards of two much-curlycued 18901sh houses, and it tells of people who moved into them when they were built. There are four sisters of 65 and upwards, three of them with husbands of 67 or more, the fourth an old maid. Youth is represented by a mama's boy of 40 who has been keeping company for more than two lustrums with a fading moron of 39. To add to its handicaps, the play has scarcely a shred of plot...
...observant realistic comedy of banal family life, it is probably closer to the U. S. common denominator than Our Town or Life with Father. Much more of this life is skim milk or spilt milk than cream. It is a chronicle of vanishing dreams and growing regrets, of crotchets and quirks, affection and annoyance, gossip and eavesdropping, small skeletons in large closets. It fails to be drab because, at 70, its people are still kicking their heels, raising their voices, cocking their ears. They talk ridiculous bromides, but with passion ; they make absurd gestures, but with feeling. They...
...color-drenched spectacle, Swingin' the Dream is as good as a parade with floats, and some of its specialty acts are excellent. As a show, it falls flat as a pancake. It is overcrowded, overelaborate, too much of a good thing, like being in nine theatres at once. The authors seem to feel that if they have less than 50 people on the stage the audience will imagine it is intermission...
...question has often been raised whether the social sciences are sciences at all. Certainly they occupy a place on the fringe of the physical and biological sciences, from which they must draw much of their nourishment. "Sociology," a term coined about a century ago by the French Philosopher Auguste Comte, has been described as "the science of leftovers"-that is, a science which picks up crumbs spilled from the groaning table of the other social sciences.* But it has also been suggested that sociology be enthroned as the basic social science-a sort of central switchboard which would coordinate...
...scientists gathered at "round tables" for informal discussion. Some of these sessions grew so heated that they finished in the hall outside the conference room. From the sidelines University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins rather tartly reminded the delegates that in 1929 the world had a much greater sense of social well-being than it has today. Henry Bruere, onetime U. of C. social worker, now president of Manhattan's big Bowery Savings, pointed out that the first time social scientists really got their teeth into national affairs was under the New Deal-an experiment...