Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the hall one typical Thursday walked nine hopefuls with eight minutes apiece to do their stuff. Three lights concealed onstage gave them their signals: green (speak louder), yellow (one more minute), red (stop). By way of a warmup, Chicago's Mrs. Charles S. Clark, who started the audition system 41 years ago. promised a program of "artists in embryo," recited a little poem entitled, Because I Got Up So Early Today...
Perhaps the only real offer of assistance comes from a letter printed as Correspondence. In exaggerated terms, the letter calls for a return to "constructive" things, i.e., "pep rallies," "active participation in social clubs," "joie de vivre" and like that stuff. We should give up our search for "aggressive outlets," our traces of "residual bitterness" and "sibling rivalry" for a more "healthy attitude." However, the answer to that challenge is simple: So, who wants to be "healthy" in a sick society...
...cast the thing in blank verse, of the sort Shaw must have had in mind when he said that blank verse was easier to write than prose. On the other hand, Gilbert was a master of his own peculiar medium, and between the gaps there is some pretty good stuff and not a little absolutely splendid stuff. His exposition of his own personal form of social Darwinism, for instance, is typically Gilbertian, which is one of the finest possible ways for a song lyric...
...makes sure to run college favorites. He's run all of the Guinesses, most several times. The un-American stuff at the Exeter, Kenmore and Beacon Hill all makes its way to the local popcorn emporium, as long as it's in our native tongue...
...next time your little lady allows as how attendance at the U.T. is non-U and not at all Ivy League, and she hopes you will flatter her sensibilities by emptying your pocekts for a single feature, just stuff her mouth full of popcorn and lead her down to the first row in front of the downstairs reserve section. I'll be there...