Word: successful
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This, on a somewhat less spectacular level, is what one had every right to expect from a Styne-Harburg collaboration. The property--Arnold Bennett's novel Buried Alive--made two successful movies, and there seemed no reason why it couldn't sustain a successful musical too. But Nunnally Johnson, who did the screenplay to the 1943 movie Holy Matrimony, has merely tightened his script a little and introduced a few new scenes in converting it to musical comedy. It isn't enough. Though Holy Matrimony was a charming comedy, its success is in retrospect attributable to the genius...
Exulting, I hurried back over the huge cables to Nordo to report the success of my mission to my teammates. One by one the other ministers returned from their negotiations -- and unbelievably everyone has agreed to meet at the peace table...
Ideally the audience watches the show in small groups, and discusses each stage of the game, calling in their decisions. Success with the teenage audience has led to proposals for using televised simulations in high school classroom situations...
...them has a long history of its own. The earliest simulated game is chess, which began in India in the 7th century. The U.S. government became interested in using foreign policy gaming in the 1950's. As training for foreign service officers, the game technique was not a great success. However, the Foreign Policy Association, a foreign affairs adult education group, found simulation gaming useful in giving amateurs some empathy for the professionals. FPA thereafter loaned their copyrighted game to GBX. Simulation is not only useful in foreign affairs; Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School both use a form...
...interested reaction of the audience; given the chance, they did prefer active participation to passive entetrainment. And if, as producer Lee said, the purpose of televising the game is "to make more people more sensitive to the problems involved in formulating foreign policy," it seemed to be a great success...