Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into a quiet, well-ordered retreat," wrote Washington Correspondent Russell Baker. Neil McElroy "congenially offered up major portions of the legislation for rewriting by the hostile House Armed Services Committee. Thus, before the rousing all-out battle pledged by the President was ever joined, Mr. McElroy had set the stage for a compromise settlement with the plan's bitterest critics...
...cafeteria in which all religions may be served to all comers. Any church is some Church ... As such it has its own order of worship and other rules. It has its own sacred symbols; its cross is not something to shift around like a piece of stage scenery ... By welcoming, without query, the services of all faiths, the church would in effect exclude everyone whose religion is more than a gesture; it would be making itself into a shrine to the one unifying faith of Harvard indifference...
...script, and nobody in his cast can create laughs out of thin air. John Wolfson is scarcely what Gogol had in mind for the chief conniver, but his cold authority works very well instead of the greasy glibness the author intended. Mr. Wolfson knows how to command a stage, and his performance is one of the evening's best. As the other gambler, Ronald Coralian does a straight part well...
Director Jan Hartman might, to good effect, have sat down hard on most of the members of his supporting cast: When the principals are off-stage, Robert Johnston's blessed quietude is the eye in a hurricane of overacting. Otherwise, Mr. Hartman has done a good job: his occasional attempts at comic business are almost uniformly successful. JULIUS NOVICK
...past meetings, Stubbins has considered construction of an underground stage, so that the building will harmonize with the surroundings and the street noise can be minimized. Other features which might have been included in the sketches approved yesterday are a library, a workshop theatre, and an adjustable apron on the main stage which can be raised and lowered to meet various production demands...