Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hands off so as "not to provide any martyrs" among the demonstrators, but the unrest gauge rose from troublesome to serious to grave. Two weeks ago, feeling its credibility as a government at stake, Saigon broke up a demonstration with tear gas and clubs, made its first arrests. The stage was set for last week's violence...
There are as many as 40 or 50 plays on the London stage in any given week, and it costs little more to see one than to go to a movie. However, says Peter Hall, "we've got rid of that stuffy middle-aged lot that go to the theater as a sop for their prejudices. We're getting a younger audience who are looking for experiences and will take them from the latest pop record or Hamlet." The In Hamlet this year is David Warner, 24, who plays the Dane with Beatle haircut and a Carnaby Street...
Musicologists traditionally have chastized the French for stultifying their music-dramas with interminable ballets and stage spectacles. Few admit, however, that such practices first flourished in an era (Lully's) when musical expression was pictorial (in the broadest sense) rather than truly dramatic, and thus more suited to the accompaniment of dance than the lofty depiction of experience. Hippolyte abounds with charming gavottes and minuets, airily scored (Rameau was one of the few Baroque composers to treat every instrument independently). But the critical theatrical moments--Thesee's confrontation of Hippolyte and Phedre, Neptune's grant of clemency to Thesee...
These queer exercises in disjunctive verse don't observe the ethics of polite conversation. Henry is addressed as Mr. Bones by a cat who might himself be Mr. Bones, but isn't. Moreover, there are no quote-marks and no stage directions, and there is no clear distinction made between the two voices by the language itself. Some parts of some songs are in a mad sort of recent Jazzese, the language of the post-vaudevillian Negro entertainer, without the furniture of dialect ("The jane is zoned! No nightspot here, no bar/there no sweet freeway, no premises..."); some of them...
Above all, because it is new, concentration is still in the easily-changed stage. It is already good and bound to get better because of the increasing number of men and amounts of money devoted to the areas it draws from. Applied Math continues to open and growing. Anyone entering it will more likely than not set at least one precedent before he graduates...