Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Children of Misery. But it did. Poet Hughes's libretto turned out to have far more peroration ("Children of misery, tomorrow we must be free," etc.) than punch. And Composer Still's music, sometimes lusciously scored, sometimes naively melodic, often had more prettiness than power. In all, Troubled Island had more of the 'souffle of operetta than the soup bone of opera. With a little seasoning here & there, some listeners thought, it could even be made into a Broadway hit. Composer Still's first-night audience liked it fine, anyhow. Exultant, happy, and even more determined...
...professional man, said Killian, "we must add [a new] ingredient-the new social mind called for by Henry Adams. The specialist must shun the view that lopsidedness is laudable; he must be politically and morally responsible; he must test his actions by their human impact...
...Folger's theatrical debut offered a pointed aside on the National Theater's decision last summer to abandon plays and show movies, rather than accept Actors' Equity's ruling that Negroes must not be barred from the audience. Julius Caesar sold tickets to all applicants, had a sprinkling of Negro customers-and not a hint of a fuss...
Characteristic in December. The trouble, as he later explained it, was that he had trusted people too much. "I knew how to say 'no,' but could seldom bring myself to say it. A woman and a politician must say that word often, and mean it-or else." But if he had any regrets Jimmy kept them to himself. Said he: "I have carried youth right up to the fifty-yard mark. I had mine and made the most...
Reading a typewritten memorandum, Neville told the Committee, "If Mr. Laski must speak, I would suggest that Harvard has many halls that might be used." Brown said later in reply that the University has no auditorium with the seating capacity of the high school hall...