Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...launching rocket, which reportedly is poised on its pad at Canaveral, is an 88-foot, three-stage affair. It carries an 85-pound payload, consisting of the satellite with some 25 pounds of instrumentation...
...primary objection to concentration in theater is that it is direct and overt training for a profession, exactly analogous in this respect to a major in journalism or physical education. Harvard has never encouraged narrow preparation for law or medicine and it should not do so for the stage. Mr. Titcomb argues that theater, in embracing many arts, conforms to the spirit of General Education. It seems to me, on the contrary, that the theater is a hierarchy and combine of specialties whose interrelations are strictly pragmatic, designed for efficiency in production, not for artistic cross-fertilization. Furthermore, the theater...
Lying in the old maintenance building at 917 Memorial Drive is one of the strangest gifts the University has received: four truckloads of stage scenery donated by the New England Opera Company last summer...
...flats fulfill a longstanding need of university theatrical groups. Previously stage flats have been either rented or borrowed by the Opera Guild or built by the students, as in the case of the HDC. James E. Stinson, Jr. '59, president of the HDC, said that the flats are "very valuable because they are the basic unit for many sets." However, he considered that their value was "more a matter of convenience than of actual money," since the cost of flats is only a small part of a production's budget...
There are certain stage personas that middle-age, middle-class, middle-brow men and women will pay good money to see. One is the dashing international gypsy, suave and prestigious, something of a rascal, preferably done in a clipped British accent. Another is the brusque, dammit-to-hell type society woman, a kind of orthodox Auntie Mame, who bustles around and smokes like a man. The audience, of course, likes to dream themselves into the two for an evening. What the actors do while they walk around in these characters doesn't matter a whole...