Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known as the sponsor of any legislation of importance, let alone of any profound or seriously progressive measures; he has never notably participated in debate on taxes or economic measures. He is a small-town politician who has learned to conduct himself inoffensively on the national stage, and who has to his credit some good work honestly done; a man as neat and grey as his double-breasted suits. There is no reason to suspect that he would make a great President-and there is no reason to believe that he would be the worst...
...Britain, too. In London, thousands still slept in shelters and subways because they had no homes, while 100,000 workers from all Britain rushed repairs on 800,000 bomb-damaged houses. In Parliament, Tories demanded greater speed, more money for repairs. Said one: "We've got to the stage where Londoners are asking why the devil they should go on taking...
Sicilian separatists want independence from Italy. Last week Sicilian separatism reached the shooting stage. In Palermo, Italian troops tommy-gunned 2,500 rioting Sicilians, killed 19, wounded 102. In Rome dry, precise British Ambassador Sir Noel Charles conveyed to Premier Ivanoe Bonomi's hard-pressed Government a precise, official message from London: any report that Britain was supporting Sicilian separation was utterly false...
...chronicle of a Norwegian-American family in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, Mama is unfolded retrospectively (from a corner of the stage) by daughter Katrin, now a successful writer. The kitchen-for-parlor home life that Katrin looks back on is dominated by firm, frugal, warmhearted Mama (extremely well played by Mady Christians) who, to give her children a feeling of security, pretends that the family has a flourishing bank account. Domestic fireworks are provided by hard-drinking, softhearted Uncle Chris (Oscar Homolka); domestic dissonances by Mama's prying married sisters. The adolescent Katrin composes excruciating short stories...
...challenging arias as the Bell Song from Lakmé and the Queen of the Night Aria from The Magic Flute had roused admiration and curiosity. But until this week, almost none of her phonographic fans had heard her in the flesh. When she walked on Carnegie Hall's stage and launched into Lucia's Mad Scene and an assortment of Mozart and Verdi fireworks, they lent attentive ears. Soprano Korjus flatted on a couple of high notes, sang a phrase or two off pitch. Her high Ds and Fs were a little strident. But she handled most...