Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allergic to Negro entertainment as Alvin R. Schwab [TIME, March 20] should move from Washington to the North Bay country. He must break out in hives when he hears Al Jolson sing Mammy...
...route for New York Saturday, the Club will perform first at the Harvard Club in that city. After stops in Syracuse and Cleveland, the group will sing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in two concerts. As a special feature, there will be a broadcast at Rochester, thus bringing to a close nine days crammed with activity...
According to rumors which circulated yesterday in the Yard, Alice will both sing and dance, while Miss Lamarr will put on a dramatic skit with "one of the local actors...
...experience the "rebirth of the College spirit," or to "pledge their loyalty to the College." They listen to a few speeches, and applaud telegrams which have been sent by Dartmouth clubs which meet simultaneously all over the nation in a sort of mystical unity; they cheer a bit and sing "Dartmouth Undying" or "Men of Dartmouth"; then perhaps they go straight to bed like the adolescent who has just been converted in a camp meeting...
Odets has portrayed frustration, bewilderment, man's dream of a better world in all his later plays, sometimes more subtly or more fiercely than in Awake and Sing, but never with so fused and spontaneous an effect. For one thing, Awake and Sing is written with a purity of feeling, a compulsion rather than calculation of purpose, which Odets has never regained. For another, it almost entirely lacks the pretentious, gassy, self-indulgent writing which has done so much to mar Odets' later work. He wrote Awake and Sing as an engrossed child of the theatre, before...