Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Should I stretch out or sit up?" Vag asked himself. "I might as well compromise." He sat down on a soft red chair at the far end of the room, put his feet up on a coffee table, and began to read. "If I study without underlining this time," he thought, "if should improve my memory...
Speaking at the Student Council forum on "The Future of Harvard Drama," MacLeish stated that emphasis in the new theatre must be on quality and on producing plays which audiences will attend and "sit through not out of loyalty, but out of love...
...itself has its purpose, and gives an all-inclusive quality to the film; yet it is also distracting and contributes to the film's great weakness: its general diffuseness, its inability to command sustained attention. For Pather Panchali, remarkable as it may be, is something of a chore to sit through. The viewer receives the impression that he is watching a document, an amazing document to be sure, but not an entirely absorbing one--and thus his eyes keep drifting over to the blue rimmed clock at the side of the screen. One can see the beauty of the camera...
...Mother, do you sit up so late? You cry so much, and look so white-Mother, do not cry. Is it because Father does not come home to bring us bread? We shall find Father...
...traitor to society." At the end of the second act a tremendous and truly exciting feeling of futility engulfs the viewer as the doctor attempts to explain the danger and his own remedial plan to a mass meeting where his audience is stacked against him. Agitators, who sit among the theatre audience, usurp control of the doctor's meeting. Fearing new taxes and loss of the town's chief income, they vote the doctor an "enemy of the people...