Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope," he said, "that many of you will take courses beyond the elementary stage this year," pointing out that a good number of Freshmen do so each year with great success. "Plan your work wisely," he advised, indicating that men with relatively low I.Q.'s nevertheless frequently make a good record at Harvard because they do their work as it is assigned and do not wait until the very last minute to prepare for tests or examinations...
...continue to have an essentially free and classless society in this country, we must proceed from the premise that there are no educational privileges. We must endeavor to sort out at each stage in the educational process those boys and girls who can profit from one type of education, and those who can profit by another. There must be a variety of educational channels leading towards different walks in life. And as far as possible there should be no hierarchy of education disciplines; no one channel should have a social standing above the other...
...rough stage, with the windowless cabin in the background, looked synthetic. The linsey-woolsey costumes looked as if they had just come out of attic trunks. But the music—the singing, fiddling and twanging of guitars, banjos and dulcimers—was the real McCoy: mountain music, with rough edges as unpolished as stones. On the hills near Ashland, Ky., country folk and tourists gathered this week for Ashland's twelfth annual American Folk Song Festival...
Died. Stanley Lupino, 47, British music-hall comedian, actor, playwright, musicomedy song writer; in London. Born into a famed theatrical family whose name had been associated with the English stage for over 300 years, he was the father of Cinemactress Ida Lupino. (Actor-Manager Lupino Lane is his cousin...
...Cohan's conception of his cocky war song, Over There, is enough to send movie audiences straight off to battle-especially as gusty Songstress Frances Langford sings it (with Johnny Get Your Gun) to 1917's doughboys. The rest, down through one of Cohan's last stage appearances (in I'd Rather Be Right, 1937), is anticlimax...