Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Driscoll urged police to arrest teenage offenders, but her main attack was against the taverns serving them. She declared that police would no longer accept excuses from propriotors who say they were hoodwinked by minors with false birth certificates...
...however, particularly gratifying to see her playing Medea again, and to find that she has somewhat tempered her interpretation of the she-lion to make her more sympathetic. There are now instances to show that the embittered Asiatic does not lose her sense of humor, And, needless to say, she does not lose her sex impulse. Miss Anderson's Medea rages not only at the wrong done to her children and her pride but also at the coldness...
...subway money-changers, as seemed to be the case in the earlier production. Gone is their folksy quality perhaps, but the dialogue has benefited. On the debit side, there are two actors playing Creon and Aegeus who either have dental difficulties or misapplied crepe beards. Much of what they say is completely muffled...
...measure, witnesses stated that there is a need in the state for this law, not so much for the liberal arts colleges as for graduate, professional, and secretarial schools; here discrimination may mean not only loss of an education, but also loss of job opportunities. Proponents of Senate 133 say that those schools which follow a non-discriminatory policy ordinarily have nothing to fear from anti-bias legislation, while those that have the questions and quotas can alter their stand without waiting for commission pressure...
That is not to say that everyone has been witness or participant in the problems of a young married couple who must live with their in-laws. For that, and not much else, is the situation confronting the people in "The Happiest Years." But it is really as an essay in feminine logic and psychology that the authors show their astuteness and humor, and it is there that the audience has its most fun. I could cite some examples of this "feminine logic" but it is complex by its very nature, as you know, and an accumulative and personal reasoning...