Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will to the theatre", a "will to play" is behind everything: religion, revolution, crime. For Evreinov the theatrical and the real are irrevocably intertwined: "the actor is the spectator and the spectator actor". If in the hectic rehearsals now going on in Brattle Hall, it seems at times uncertain whether Mr. Massey is trying to play the piece as realism or as fantasy, that very ambiguity is perhaps in keeping with the border line spirit of Evreinov himself for whom life is the theatre and the theatre life
...race between Tibbetts and Loucks of Syracuse, was a close one the whole length of the course and until the finish a very uncertain one. It was the Crimson leader who crossed the line a bare three yards in the lead, with Hillman of Maine, the nearest competitor to the two, 75 yard behind...
Said Critic-Poet Louis Untermeyer: "Nathalia can explain practically every line she has ever written; I have heard her uncertain treble clarify passages that have puzzled erudite authors...
Cornell's uncertain team, held scoreless in the first half, worked up steam slowly like an old locomotive on a slippery grade until it went fast enough to beat Canissius...
...happen in a nervous breakdown. Then, when the author has firmly established the nervous breakdown, the successful play, the handsome young nerve specialist, and the thoughtless young lady, in stalks mental telepathy. It comes in in the person of the mother of young playwright. She insinuates in no uncertain terms that the play is a steal...