Word: stage
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Still, it was significant that the Soviets had allowed the East Germans to go as far as they did. Perhaps the most plausible explanation was that the Soviet leaders felt compelled to allow their most loyal and important ally to kick up a minor fuss, while all the time stage-managing the crisis so that its timing and proportions would not seriously impair U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations...
...Russel V. Lee (father of Philip and other M.D. Lees), 30% of the patients in a hospital at any one time should not be there. Either they have been admitted for what are really diagnostic procedures, to gain insurance coverage, or they are past the acute stage of their illness and should be in some sort of convalescent or other extended-care facility, in which the costs would be 40% or 50% less...
...When I'm on that stage," says Nina Simone, "I don't think I'm just out there to entertain." Nina is a Negro and proud of it; she is out there to share with the audience what Soul Singer Ray Charles calls her "message things." When her listeners are not with her, she can be icy: "You're not giving one thing tonight." When they are with her, which is most of the time, the ice melts. "When we connect, an audience and myself, when we hit a certain point, I just get all happy...
...just observed," he says. Thus one manned flyby might well supply more information than many unmanned missions, each several years apart. Also, Singer points out, preparations for manned planetary flybys would generate major advances in technology, more fully capture the imagination and support of the public, and set the stage for eventual manned landings on Mars...
...cerebral than The Proposition's frenetic mimickry would suggest. Having left behind the simplicity of his first show, Leven sought in The Light Company a "synthesis of every kind of movement in the theatre: non-objective, abstract, futuristic, surreal. We are to say--look this is a piece of stage, it is not real life. So, let's treat it in a context void of emotional restraints. Let's treat it like a cubist treats a piece of canvas. The Light Company should be a collage- type theatre, allowing a person to select what he wants...