Word: thespianic
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...U.M.W.'s aging Thespian promptly rushed into debate with the Senator. Excerpts...
...Thespian hearts should beat a little faster and thespian smiles grow a little broader with the knowledge that a University theatre has finally clmbed near the top of the Arts and Sciences building priority list. Now that the College and the GSAS are supplied with a new library, a student activities center, graduate dormitories, an applied science building, and a General Education lecture hall, those interested in drama at Harvard can start hoping again...
...something bad. The speech went like this: "Are you aware that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extrovert? Not only that, but this man is reliably reported to practice nepotism with his sister-in-law, and he has a sister who was once a thespian in wicked New York. Worst of all, it is an established fact that Mr. Pepper before his marriage habitually practiced celibacy...
...Defense Attorney Stryker moved in for cross-examination the audience sat forward expectantly. But the great Thespian was surprisingly gentle. Beyond seeming to lose his temper once, and announcing twice for the jury's benefit that he, himself (unlike Wadleigh), had never gone to Oxford, he hardly seemed to warm up. He attempted unsuccessfully to get Wadleigh to say he had stolen documents from desks other than his own (including Hiss's) and turned the witness loose. At week's end the Government rested its case...
...hard to be sure, for that matter, just where all 500 organizations fitted in. Veterans' associations, labor unions, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Y.M.C.A. were on hand. There were representatives of the National Thespian Society, the American Association of Teachers of French, the Polish National Catholic Church of America, the D.A.R. and the American Guild of Organists. The cultural unity of the human race was the farthest objective anybody actually mentioned, but the American Society of Mammalogists, perhaps looking for new species' to consolidate, showed...