Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Notified by postcard of their dismissal, the offending members were charged with violating the H.D.C. rule which would have prevented them from working with any other dramatic group while they were needed for the H.D.C.'s production of "Adams the Creator...
Zimmerman, however, believes that the exceptions do not prove the rule and remarked that "taken as a whole, the Southern California and Hollywood radio and movie people represent a sophisticated and abnormal population and are the quintessence of upper class family disintegration...
...speak of India's internal rivalries as if they were unique. In complexity, India's problems may still hold the palm (see FOREIGN NEWS), but recent months have brought the appalling realization that Britain faces in most colonies counterparts of the Indian communal strife. Whenever British rule is firmly consolidated and seemingly permanent, political conflict between native groups is nonexistent or subdued because there is no power for the natives to fight over. But when the British show signs of relaxing their grip on any colony, then racial, religious, tribal or individual competition to fill the prospective vacuum...
...many places it did certainly achieve, one way or another, the bawdy, rollicking good-humor which its author intended. That it did not fully realize its potentialitics is undoubtedly due to strict University censorship and the lack of experienced burlesque comedianship on the part of its actors. For "Rule A Wife And Have A Wife" is not great art--it is vulgar funny stuff which should be played (if it is not to be embarrassing) by those who instinctively understand it best--Mike Sachs, Bert Lahr, and Bobby Clark...
Evidently your reviewer didn't bother to read his own review (or perhaps he suffered a recurrence of an old war injury) for exactly a month later in writing of the Radcliffe Idler's production of Fletcher's "Rule A Wife And Have A Wife" he says ". . . the audience . . . was consistently delighted by the general feeling that it was seeing an intelligent and tasteful effort by a well-directed college dramatic group--the first chance anyone has had in Cambridge this fall to indulge in such a feeling...