Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attributes to him, it is no wonder that much of the story reads like a parody of Victorian melodrama. O'Neill once explained that he had trained himself as a playwright by reading "nothing but plays, great plays, melodrama" until "he was thinking in dialogue." Agnes, the convent-educated daughter of a painter, met him in a Greenwich Village joint called "The Hell Hole." As he saw her home that same evening, he said in a low, sure voice: "I want to spend every night of my life from now on with you. I mean this. Every night...
...foot in Omaha before, but one day last week the town turned out as if he were a returning hero. The Junior Chamber of Commerce met him at Union Station; he was taken on a tour of Boys Town, paid his respects to the archbishop, visited a convent for errant girls, and was named Chief Charging Buffalo by the Omaha Indians. The excuse for all the excitement seemed as zany as the celebration itself: Stan Freberg, visiting comic-turned-adman from California, had come to town to lead the Omaha Symphony Orchestra through a 6½-minute singing commercial...
...invalided at war's end to hospitals in northern Italy. When he returned to Falciano and found Alba gone, her family told him she had married and moved to Belgium. But Rinaldo continued the search and found her at last, only to hear her tell him through the convent grating: "I love you no more. I have said goodbye to the world...
Then she decided. Under her headdress she let her shaved hair grow a bit; from material sent in by friends she secretly stitched herself a skirt and blouse. One night she changed her clothes and mingled with visitors who were leaving the convent. "Buona sera," she nodded to the gatekeeper, and stepped out into the lighted street...
...empire and artistry in opera's most florid era, when Victoria's passion for singers helped make London the goal of every topflight musician. Its history goes back even farther, to two Covent Gardens before it. In 1732 Actor John Rich, who had rented the site, a convent-garden, built a prose theater (its star playwrights: Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Sheridan). After a devastating fire, the theater was rebuilt in 1809, later named the Royal Italian Opera House. It featured not only opera but all-night masked balls whose patrons, wrote a shocked reporter, "were truly the disciples...