Word: datedness
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Most plays get dated, but social-protest plays date more rapidly than others. They stand still while times change. Addressed to a flaming grievance, they lose their fire as the grievance is redressed. In Depression days, when unions were weak and embattled, the fierce rallying cry at the end of...
The birth of the modern Broadway musical is generally dated back to the early forties, when Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! introduced the idea of integrating songs and dances into a play. Up until that time, musicals were generally silly comedies or melodramas...
But what was modern thirty years ago no longer works. These days it is actually embarrassing when an actor breaks into song during a scene of a drama, even if the song is well integrated into the ???? why the successful musicals of the sixties- Hello, Dolly, Funny Girl, Mume, and...
The study did find that male students were more likely to commit suicide than female and that "suicidal students dated less often and had less sexual experience than nonsuicidal students."
The Counsellor to the President could not resist the fetching phrase "benign neglect" to describe his notion of the proper attitude the Government should now have toward race relations. Predictably enough, the document caused a sensation. Last week two more of his papers trickled out of the federal bureaucracy. Both...