Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowded stage of Detroit's Music Hall, Margaret faced the nearly empty auditorium in a blue, off-shoulder gown and a mantle of apparent composure. The Music Digest Sunday Evening Hour tactfully announced its pleasure in presenting "Miss Margaret Truman, of Washington, D.C." No reference to her father was made...
...future colonization." It was a misconception to consider the Monroe Doctrine, which challenged all the nations of Europe, a doctrine of isolation. The policy expanded again with John Hay's "Open Door" in China. Under Theodore Roosevelt, it landed the U.S. in the middle of the world stage. It reached a climax in 1917 when Woodrow Wilson, in words which it became fashionable to sneer at in the '30s, said...
Russia might stage an astute political retreat, while Communist propaganda would tap-tap on the U.S. conscience. Moscow indicated the line. Said Izvestia, in a bland and self-righteous editorial: "What is such monopolistic 'American responsibility' but a smoke screen for plans of expansion? Dilations to the effect that the United States is 'called upon to save' Greece and Turkey from expansion on the part of the so-called 'totalitarian states' are not new. Hitler also referred to the Bolsheviks when he wanted to open the road to conquests for himself...
...Americans were-that was a question not only for posterity. For in the vast and gloomy drama which is currently occupying the world's stage, Americans (whether they liked it or not) were playing the lead. How did the new stars appear to the worldwide audience? Part of the crucial answer could actually be found in the theater. American lives, loves, liberties and laughter were being exhibited everywhere on Europe's battered boards, from London's Globe to Rome's Quirino. European plays about Americans, and Europeans' reaction to the flood of imported U.S. plays...
...memorial Hall transept for the Reims coronation scene was a master stroke of a designer's imagination: with the audience seated in the long hall it became a cathedral even to the acoustics. And that was not the limit of Holabird's invention. His division of the stage into three separate units for the opening scenes would alone have made the staging an unusual achievement...