Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prefers tragedy, the buskin. The analogous reference in // Penseroso may be found in lines 97-102: "Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage...
...Harvard Glee Club and Boston Symphony Orchestra, one at Sanders Theatre tonight, the other two at Symphony Hall Friday and Saturday, will be a rich treat. The fact that it was conceived in purely auditory terms, and not, like the ballets, to be accompanied by a colorful stage spectacle, makes "Oedipus" even more intriguing, as the listener will not feel that he is missing half the show...
...afraid to be outshone by his lesser lights, he has surrounded himself with a brilliant supporting cast. Margaret Webster has again molded together one of the colorful and scenically interesting productions which have made her almost as famous as Evans himself on the American stage. Melpomene may well smile on the cold wastes of Boston this week, for here resides, for the nonce, the true spirit of tragedy...
...reader will note that Sinclair Lewis' mellowness sometimes goes maudlin, that his asides on the renaissance of the stage through college and summer theatre companies are more enthusiastic than thoughtful, that about half his characters are themselves straight out of stock, and that as a novel the education of Bethel Merriday is neither so close-knit nor so serious in import as was that of Martin Arrowsmith. But the reader must likewise note that this is not the sour and rickety work of an old self-imitator but a buoyant tale with neither claims nor pretensions to being...
...thinking is also the art of believing, because no human being at the present stage of civilization could safely call all his individual and social beliefs into question again or submit them to his conscience...