Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY America. A time of prosperity, when the Horatio Alger myth is still alive, if somewhat decrepit. The country is growing up so fast--growing up cynical. The rich advance, playing the stock-market and beating back the unions. The workingman comes to understand he is no more than a commodity. A world war is fought for democracy and the benefit of the wealthy. Flappers flap and workers grow accustomed to Henry Ford's innovative assembly-line factory techniques and nobody--rich or poor--can hear over all the din. No one can think. They just keep...
...this material; it could mitigate two of the play's most irritating problems--the occasionally moralistic tone of the playwright, and the differing degrees to which the players act "in period." Yet Manulis fails to develop the dress rehearsal framework coherently, and the result is a hastily slapped on, somewhat confusing effort...
...deceptively flat voice. Where Moorehouse is soft, Prewitt's Savage is tough and pragmatic. Somehow he will survive the Crash and become the new era's success story; even as the cognac flows in a Paris cafe in celebration of the end of the world war, Savage suggests somewhat cheerfully, "Who knows? We might be back here for the next...
...everything had gone as planned, I would be leaving for Florida on Saturday. But my friend's sister cracked up the family car. It was nothing major--she didn't even get hurt--but it was enough to force me to spend my vacation in the somewhat less favorable clime of Cambridge...
...assembly for representatives from campus minority organizations, the minority organizations mobilized to neutralize this anti-affirmative action sentiment. The convention members first reacted to this flurry of activity with a sort of pleasant amazement that the convention had finally provoked a response from the students, even a somewhat negative response. Having nearly 90 students show up for a convention meeting--most of which in the past had barely managed to keep a quorum--was, at Harvard, an accomplishment in itself. A sense of excitement and importance galvanized the meeting. But the eager excitement quickly turned to anxious hesitancy...