Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equipped, scantily trained, the U. S. Army had put itself on a stage where its public could see it in all its deficiencies. What the public saw was the inevitable result of 20 years of peacetime apathy toward national defense. What profession al Army officers saw was a job well done, considering the tools and men on hand to date...
...weeks in the U. S., where he played in My Official Wife with Clara Kimball Young, worked as a waiter in a restaurant on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue, edited a Bronx newspaper; his return to Russia after the March Revolution of 1917, where he joined Lenin, helped to stage the October Revolution, conducted the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations with Germany. Because it seemed a major point of proletarian protocol, he wired Lenin to ask whether he should wear a tailcoat to the peace celebration. Lenin answered: "If it will help to bring peace, go in a petticoat...
...situations. Its dancers are graceful athletes; its subjects usually fairy tales, quaint boy-&-girl situations, gentle vaudevillian satires. Some rebellious dancers, pining for more significant footwork, have balked at ballet's limitations. First of the rebels was the late great U. S. Dancer Isadora Duncan, who took to stage dancing like a Baptist to water, discarded ballet's fouettes and entrechats for natural movements, its powder-puff skirts for Greek robes...
...summer dance event. Climax of the festival was a brand-new Graham ballet, Letter to the World, danced by 16 Grahamites. For it U. S. Composer Hunter Johnson had written a substantial, lengthy musical score; U. S. Scenic Designer Arch Lauterer had built an unprecedented stage load of secret panels, revolving doors and trick modernistic lighting effects. The ballet's subject: Poet Emily Dickinson, the New England spinster who never went out of her Amherst, Mass, house for 24 years, got all her excitement in her own head. Choregrapher Graham divided her ballet in half, gave the Dr. Jekyll...
...This entire work," Dr. Allen warned, "is strictly in an experimental stage." Often it is impossible to tie off blood vessels and the treatment can be used only for certain localized external growths. But he reminded his colleagues that tumors can be "asphyxiated" by other means. He urged that research be continued on treatment combining X-ray and artificially induced inflammation...