Word: functions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plainly, Red China's leadership had concluded that if its smaller neighbors could not be deceived by propaganda, they must be quieted by fear. Red China's truculence also served another classic function: at the moment, Peking needs internal pressure more than it needs external friends...
...might be argued," wrote Donald Malcolm, reviewing the Circle in the Square production, that Our Town is not a play at all, but a novel galvanized!" Taking over the function of a novel's omniscient narrator, Wilder's Stage Manager, the instrument by which he creates the largely invisible, but believable world of Grovers Corners, New Hampshire, must be impeccable in both manner and dialogue. Edward Finnegan, the Stage Manager in the Charles Players' production is all this and more, and most of the play's success can be attributed to his well-timed gestures of hat and pipe...
...some neat images, but lack coherence. Also in Cast From a Coffee House Comedy, the poet rhymes quartz with schmaltz, which is enough to stop any reader right there. The prose poem Battery Manhattan again has its brief moments, but is cluttered with incomplete sentences which have no function, and forced quaintness of expression. Mr. Phelps does however call the cry of a sea gull "Crake," which is amazingly accurate...
...prices are not high relative to any other commercial establishment nor that we use monopoly advantages in selling them. That the cost of living is "high" in comparison to our student pocketbooks is not the fault of H.S.A. but merely a given fact in the economy in which we function...
Although he has presented the works of more than 130 contemporary composers, at 52 Polikoff still remains awed by the composer's function. In 1950, he recalls, he played Charles Ives's Sonata No. 11n Carnegie Hall and called Ives's home to check a detail. While talking to Mrs. Ives, he heard the ailing composer shouting in the background: "I want to shake that young man's hand!" Marvels Polikoff: "Think of it! He wanted to shake my hand because I was playing one of his pieces...