Word: sort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very much," said one. Another added, "He's on our side, but his views have to change a little." Commenting on their roles as uncommon women, which, many complained, was the focal point of every Gettell speech, one girl admitted "We're average girls over here." "We're sort of a stereotype," a fourth commented...
...people have been unable to adjust culturally to the coming of Western technology and hygiene, resulting in burgeoning population without a corresponding rise in national productivity, the speakers agreed. Unless these problems were solved, they asserted, an explosion of some sort was inevitable...
Choreographer Ross based his work on an early (1902) Thomas Mann story, a sort of literary foothill to his later Magic Mountain. The ballet began in a stark hospital room done in astringent blues and whites. The tuberculous heroine (Ballerina Nora Kaye) beat feebly on the single closed door, panted, felt her heart, slithered onto a chair and sank to the floor in a crawling frenzy. She was joined there by the hero (Erik Bruhn). Together they clutched, held, tangled and disentangled in a series of movements that ranged from the supine to the ridiculous...
Premier May (Continental) is an intricate little French exercise as formally organized as a rondo, and bearing much the same sort of charm. In the course of a day, a baby is born, a pretty girl gets engaged, a boy learns the facts of life and, in his own way, so does his father. Writer-Director Luis Saslavsky's soft-voiced theme is that no one of these things could have happened unless all the others...
...some of the difficulties in the undertaking. The decision to produce another play was democratically arrived at by the students in the group, some of whom had had their own hesitations from the start. Two years ago, when the Dramatic Club was considering Hamlet, I had the same sort of discussion with its talented student director, Stephen Aaron. I am glad that he and his fellow members decided to go ahead, since they did so with a full awareness of their problems, artistic and financial...