Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They sustain our national interest in the drama and cater to many more people than ever saw a Broadway production. We may rightly worry about the past New York season, and fear for the future of the commercial theatre, but as long as these many stage-struck amateurs and semi-professional groups produce plays, the theatre in America is still supreme...
...often prevent such revivals, for box-office returns are founded on "names," and most of the fore-runners of the modern drama are unknown outside classrooms. It is a pleasure, then, to see the current production of the Harvard Dramatic Club, Nikolai Gogol's "The Inspector General." This semi-realistic social comedy, first produced in 1936, influenced all the later Russian playwrights and also those of Germany, Norway, and England late in the 19th century. With acute local perception and yet a vast universality of theme Gogol exposes the corruption and bribery that pervaded the local government of Russia...
American routes by more than half, the U.S.'s southern semi-allies grew clamorous with the realization that solidarity means sacrifice...
...pulpits of Yale and Princeton. This action, moving towards a "Gleichshaltung," strikes at the heart of democratic tradition. It is appropriate for countries under a dictatorship rather than for democracies under a constitution guaranteeing political and religious liberty. It matters not that Harvard and Yale and Princeton are only semi-public institutions. Some place on earth must remain for the play of differing philosophies and convictions. Some have said that is what we are fighting for. Dale Pontins (Former instructor in Government...
...most of the show is just good everyday stuff: a comic or two, a short sports summary, some popular and semi-classical music, a novelty number here, a Hollywood star there. No one draws pay; no one rehearses. The procedure is to conscript one of the big weekly commercials immediately after it goes off the air, build a new show with added acts and performers, transcribe it, and send the wax discs to the short-wave stations for the Sunday broadcast...