Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second stage of the training would allow a number of options, which in length and intensity would equal at least six months. The options: 1) another six months' training, after which a trainee would have discharged all his obligations short of war; 2) enlistment in one of the regular services for a minimum of two years; 3) enrollment in one of the service academies; 4) enrollment in the National Guard or the Organized Reserve with 48 evenings a year of armory drill and two weeks in summer camp, for three years; 5) enrollment in college R.O.T.C.s...
...Emperor Meiji's classic Shinto ghost would toss about in dismay inside the quiet Meiji Shrine, if it knew what was happening at the Diet building a few miles away. Though some might say that Japanese politics there were being run according to the familiar prewar stage directions, there were certainly unexpected faces in several of the leading roles. Tetsu Katayama, the new Socialist Premier, is the Presbyterian grandson of a Shinto priest. Jiichiro Matsumoto, vice chairman of the Diet's upper house, is one of Japan's Eta* "untouchables." The new Cabinet Secretary, smart Socialist Strategist...
...Dolly was the only comic character on the Nicaraguan stage. In the Officers' Club down the curving street from the palace, The Boss-tired, nervous ex-President Anastasio Somoza-ruled the powerful National Guard and sat on the country's formidable stack of arms. From the haven of the Mexican Embassy, old Dr. Leonardo Argüello, who had been kicked out of the presidency when he turned on The Boss and decided to run the country himself (TIME, June 2), spoke out with surprising boldness. Biding its time was Somoza's real opposition, led by General...
...Gielgud's better half; but, after all, Gielgud's Importance of Being Earnest was far & away the most brilliant revival of the season. Earnest, moreover, is only 52 years old; Love for Love, 252. For its age, Love for Love gets around on a Broadway stage very nicely...
...much less airy and aristocratic comedy than Congreve's The Way of the World, Love for Love is for that very reason a livelier theater piece. Its farce is its fortune; just about the broadest stage business in the whole play-countrified Miss Prue being taught city ways of love -is just about the best thing it offers. Indeed, like almost all Restoration comedy, much of Love for Love runs, sometimes boringly, to bawdry...