Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evgraf, Pasha, Komarovsky (the old lecher), and Tonia (Zhivago's first wife) rush onto the stage, whisper or shout their say, commit their little deeds and consider their situations, and the clamber back into the wings. Some, like Zhivago, are tangled in the threads of introspection; others don't appear to think at all. Does Komarsky help Lara out of a sense of guilt for having violated her, out of a real love, or what: What sort of person is Tonia? Why did Pasha really leave home? Unfortunately, we can't tune in tomorrow...
Last year, on Open House night, the last stage of Bicker, 23 sophomores did not receive bids, and refused to join Prospect Club, a co-operative organization that accepted any interested student. Of the 23, fifteen were Jewish, and several sources charged religious discrimination. Most of these "hundred percenters" have since joined either Prospect or the Wilson Lodge...
...exercised on title bouts, directed I.B.C. Kingpins James D. Norris and Arthur M. Wirtz to dissolve both clubs, sell their controlling interest in New York's Madison Square Garden, open both the Garden and Chicago Stadium to any qualified promoter. Neither the Garden nor the Stadium may stage more than two championship fights a year. ¶ Thrashing purposefully against a stop watch in the Olympic pool at North Sydney, Australia's incredible whiz-kid, Lisa Konrads, 14, touched out in 19 min. 25.7 sec., shattering the old world record for 1,500 meters by an amazing...
Rashomon, a stage version (by Fay and Michael Kanin) of the widely admired Japanese movie, is a whodunit about the death of a nobleman in a medieval forest. There are four different versions of the crime, but the solution is left to the audience. Rashomon (opening on Broadway Jan. 27) beguiled Philadelphia with its fine acting by Claire Bloom, Rod Steiger, Noel Willman, Akim Tamiroff, Oscar Homolka. The fable may be inscrutable, but, said Variety, "for some playgoers it is exciting entertainment...
...full-scale plants because private industry cannot afford the huge costs in researching and developing the different techniques and materials involved. Against this view, the report argues that the Government gets more for its money if it builds two or three generations of prototype models, learning from each stage. But the report offered a back-door approach to meeting Anderson's objection: the Government would "substantially" increase its applied research expenditures on civilian nuclear power, thus taking over more of the lab and engineering work from industry...