Word: stage
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mayor Kelly was ordered to set the stage. As a veteran Chicago politician. Boss Ed had his own ideas about "spontaneous" demonstrations. Leaving nothing to chance, he ordered "the works." Plan was to bring in hundreds of placard-staves, to distribute hundreds of noisemakers (whistles, bells) to the galleries; one sitting band, one marching band and the pipe organ would contribute to the spontaneous ovation. To clinch matters, the loudest man in Chicago politics, Superintendent of Sewers Tom Garry (see p. 14), was stationed at the public-address system to give out with lots of voice...
...California's Mills College last week, summer-school students filed on to a stage before a Picasso-like background of musical scales, picked up an assortment of bells, whistles and drums, and let go with everything they had. With ordered gusto they banged, rattled, beat, blew, stomped and rang their way through Henry Cowell's Pulse, John Cage's Second Construction, William Russell's Chicago Sketches, Lou Harrison's Canticle, Amadeo Roldan's Ritmicas V and VI. When they had finished, the audience gave percussive approval. Wrote Musicritic Alfred Frankenstein in San Francisco...
...apparatus will be intricate and the experiment laborious. Says Dr. Darwin: "Each successive stage in producing cold has called for greater efforts and has on the whole produced less results." But scientists may find that at a few millionths of a degree above absolute zero, certain sub stances become permanent magnets ; they may find nothing. They do not know for sure what they will find, and that is the lure. If England survives they will keep going...
...gross when it amounts to more than $1,500. Only permanent member of Horton's company besides himself is Marjorie Lord, who was discovered by Horton in Saratoga, N. Y. The other two characters required for the play are hired in advance by Horton's stage manager, given a dress rehearsal when Horton and Lord arrive in town...
...great ideologues of Communism, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who really had something to say, had said it so clumsily that old Bolsheviks liked to boast that it had taken them a lifetime to understand the third volume of Das Kapital. Comrade Lenin was somewhat too electric for diaper-stage dialecticians. Comrade Stalin, densely narcotic in Russian, was practically lethal in English. There remained a library of dull, flimsy, semiliterate pamphlets (many of them translated from Russian via German). Moreover, their authors were constantly falling into doctrinal disfavor...