Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Absence of formal instruction in geography makes it a logical subject to take up," Gilmore stated, but he doubted that the seminar will set a precedent for the introduction of more geography in the History department...
Owing to the encroachment of the Mikado's set, the available acting area is, to say the least, minuscule. But James Peters has backed it with a delightfully drawn setting, and W. Reginald Parker has deployed his charges as flexibly as a postage stamp will allow...
Already convinced that "the most important thing of all is salesmanship," Eaton rushed right home and set down The Builder's Creed: "I believe in a happy Eternal Life ... in a Christ that smiles and loves you and me, [in] an immense Endowment Care Fund ... to care for and perpetuate this Garden of Memory." The Creed, combined with a pay-now-die-later arrangement soothingly described as a Before Need Plan, boosted plot sales by 250% in the first year...
Author Dunham writes movingly but without bitterness about the struggle of the children to break free of the father, and about the genteel shabbiness of lower-middle-class Negro life. A set piece on the well-calculated emotionalism of a Bible-banging preacher could hardly be done better. And the reader feels sharply Katherine's humiliation and despair when her neurotically protective father insists on being her dancing partner at parties. For violence and despair, the Dunham family wars approach Eugene O'Neill's. When the last blow has been struck-backhanded, across the mouth-and Katherine...
Holdovers from last season still going strong: My Fair Lady and The Music Man (musicals), La Plume de Ma Tante (French revue), A Raisin in the Sun (a moving play set in Chicago's Harlem...