Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wounded. Of this battle you can see exactly nothing. But when you leave the banks of the river the ground war suddenly becomes very grim drama. Down muddy, green-walled tracks stagger wounded men, the blood still running from beneath grimy bandages, their green uniforms stained grey with mud, their faces lined, insect-bitten, haggard, sometimes fever-yellowed. Men with torn limbs lie, eyes closed, on crude log stretchers, borne on the muscled shoulders of kindly, perpetually plodding, splayfooted natives. A native walks beside each man, holding a huge green banana leaf to keep the burning sun from the head...
...later seasons Ureli Corelli Hill bankrupted himself in the California gold rush, returned to borrow the Philharmonic's sinking fund, in the process nearly sank the orchestra. At 70 he retired from music to take a flyer as a bit-part actor in legitimate drama. A disastrous venture in New Jersey real estate catapulted him back into Manhattan concert managing. In 1875 Ureli Corelli Hill took an overdose of morphine. Beside his body, police discovered a note. "Ha, ha!" it read, "I go, the sooner the better...
...must choose between a woman with beauty but no money and another with money but no beauty. There are several hilarious situations, and the dialogue is brilliant. "The Second Man" will probably become a classic because of its superb handling of one of the fundamental principles of the drama: that Comedy must be based on Reason, while Tragedy is based on Emotion. This is a play consciously and delightfully concerned with the human mind...
...club itself fared better under administrative apathy than has drama as a whole; only occasional resounding flops have marred its record. But the recent success "Mashenka" probably concludes the Club's activity for the duration, and with this suspension the last taste of the theatre at Harvard will be gone...
Nothing comparable has been achieved since. The University must learn that the theatre cannot "thrive on frustration." It must be nurtured by adequate drama courses, by an endowed college theatre, by an attitude that actively reverses the former Puritan ideas. The first two of these goals can only be realized after the war, but it is not too early to start on the last...