Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Take one rather windy, over-long play that has plenty of Ideas, sit on it, heavily to press out the depth, cut it to a sensible length, then polish so it glistens, and you have the current product at the Shubert. The process transforms a dramatic treatise in philosophy into a funny but two-dimensional play, perhaps the best that can be done with. "Man and Superman," which is, after all, something to be read rather than seen. Shaw's rebellious witticisms are served up in the elegant, stylized manner that Gielgud brought to perfection in "The Importance of Being...
Wherever the Dodgers have played, Negroes have turned out in force to see their hero. In Chicago, where Negro fans sported Jackie Robinson buttons, Jackie's fans came early and brought their lunch. In Jim Crowish St. Louis, where Negroes must sit in the right-field pavilion, the Robinson rooting section was more noticeable. Their adulation embarrassed Robbie: it made it harder for him to act like just another ballplayer. Rickey had promised to treat Jackie "just like any other rookie," and he certainly did on the payroll. Though he may have to pay Jackie more next season...
...girl friends after long illness; in Florence, Italy. Mrs. Keppel settled easily into the pleasure-loving royal household; no objections were heard from either the Hon. George Keppel (third son of the Earl of Albemarle) or Queen Alexandra, who at the end graciously asked Alice to sit by Edward's deathbed...
...Minister to France. Feuchtwanger does best at picturing Franklin's patient and crafty life in the grassy suburb of Passy, writing and printing his bagatelles of satire on his own hand press, enjoying his hot bath in a lidded tub of his own design (on which visitors could sit while he soaked), gravely carrying on his gallantries with French women and using his popularity to best advantage for his country...