Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real deal between Japan and the U.S., that is another matter. Last week, after two weeks of careful explorations, it was hard to find a responsible official in Washington who entertained serious thoughts that Japanese-U.S. talks would ever get beyond the stage of polite hopefulness. There were too many impediments...
...Harvard Freshman's love-life moves by stages. First comes Radcliffe, a sort of practice era during which he learns about Boston's subway system and horn-rimmed glasses. A bit of advice: go through this stage on the q.t. without boasting of your conquests. You may not be so proud of them in years to come...
After the Radcliffe stage and following a few experimental trips to the Raymor the Freshman almost invariably moves to Wellesley, a veritable paradise after the hell he has been through. In this stage he learns about Seller's, the Sandy Burr Country Club, and the lure of Boston nightclubs for Wellesley students. Wellesley students always want to go in to Boston, even if only for a half an hour. The Freshman will also come into contact with minimums and cover charges...
Unorthodox is La Cava's method of making a picture. He believes that the screen is not (like the stage) an acting medium, that a scene plays itself. La Cava begins a picture by throwing away the script, keeping the bare outline of the plot and developing it spontaneously around the personalities of the actors he has selected. If a scene rings true, it is right; if not, the actor should not be forced to play it. He writes most of the new script himself...
...leadership of the C.I.O. and in strategic spots in the Federal Government. Eugene Lyons tells how the Commies managed by grace of the depression, the widespread fear of fascism, the Spanish Civil War and the New Deal to capture key positions in U.S. publishing, radio, movies and the stage...