Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each night, the contestants were introduced to the public from the stage of a boardwalk theater. They made only a brief appearance in bathing suits. They wore evening gowns for the serious business -proving to the judges that they possessed "talent." Since many of them had confessed rather wildly to having no "talent" at all, the results were often novel. Some sang, some recited, some tap-danced, and one girl played Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life on the marimba. Hundreds of soldiers and wounded veterans who came to the theater to look at legs, came back, fascinated, night after night...
...future is in the hands of the scientists. . . . Just as you had the old knight in armor leveled by the first man who got hold of a gun, now you have got to a stage where a country could win a war despite its size. It could win, however small it was, provided it had the scientific resources and brains to obtain mastery of the new weapons. If you couple the atomic bomb with the projected missile [e.g., buzz-bombs or rocket bombs], you have something with possibilities that hardly bear contemplation...
...bomb-battered city was not the old Vienna. Wrote Gedye: "It was like walking onto a stage where the scenery of some gay Viennese operetta had been dismantled, the vivid costumes of the artists replaced by the dull garb of the scene-shifters. The curtain has fallen on Vienna's operetta existence, and it will be long before it rises again...
That set the stage for the preordained finale. But first Sarah Palfrey Cooke, back at Forest Hills after four years, recovered her abdicated singles throne. With green-ribboned pigtails flying, she beat Pauline Betz 3-6, 8-6, 6-4, and earned a husbandly kiss from Elwood...
...take a peek inside the temple will have a hard time; the services are conducted in a formidable lingo, which puts new meanings to such familiar words as sublimation, transference and catharsis, and uses such arcane runes as abalienation and stereotypy. Sample liturgical phrase: "narcissistic identification as a preliminary stage to object cathexis" (which means that a person is drawn to other people because they remind him of himself...