Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national defense job has been slower than the supplying of professional shows to U.S. Army camps, but last week, after six months of confusion and lack of funds, the Government began to get somewhere with it. The job had been given to a single group-the semi-official Citizens Committee for the Army & Navy, Inc., headed by smart President Thomas John ("THINK") Watson of International Business Machines Corp. Under Chairman Watson was a theatrical subcommittee headed by Broadway Producer Vinton Freedley (Anything Goes, Red, Hot and Blue...
...escape from the asylum [Germany] in which he has so long been confined. . . . . His activities must be considered as those of a perfectly sane man." > Dr. Gregory Zilboorg of Manhattan: "Hess may have a megalomanic-paranoiac trend. Hess's profound devotion to Hitler over so many years was semi-pathologic and he may have been suffering from a homosexual panic when he ran away. He may be a pathologic person but not necessarily crazy." > Dr. Leo Alexander of Boston: "Hess may be a constitutionally paranoid personality who may be expected under stress . . . to break down into full-fledged paranoia...
Paul Bunyan, with music by willowy Composer Benjamin Britten, had its world premiere with a semi-amateur performance at Columbia University, under the auspices of the League of Composers. The League thus gave a poor start to a good project: development of a "Composers' Theater" to give contemporary English-language opera throughout the U.S. For Paul Bunyan was as bewildering and irritating a treatment of the outsize lumberman as any two Englishmen could have devised...
...thoroughness of Henry James developing a character in fourteen chapters, Playwright Robert Sherwood as director of "Adam-Had Four Sons" has made it into a psychological dissection of an upperclass family during the last war. Warner Baxter, stouter than in his matinee idol days but still a portrayer of semi-phlegmatic emotion, acts the bachelor-ed broker whose love for his housekeeper (Ingrid Bergman) is disturbed by her suspicious actions in protecting him from knowledge of the unfaithfulness of his daughter-in-law. Susan Hayward looks, as well as plays, the part of the scheming minx who loves...
...semi-literate alumni and nearly brought on a legislative investigation by an article entitled "Chaos at Harvard." In the cellar lit by sun-lamp, frogs about to be dissected live the idyllic life of the doomed croaking love songs all winter...