Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call this a continuing drama because I view this war as a continuation of the last war; and the whole as perhaps another Thirty Years' War, which began in 1914, was interrupted by the armistice of 1919, improperly called a peace; was resumed with greater ferocity in 1939; and may continue-who knows?-until...
Inducted into the Army in San Francisco, William Saroyan, the drama's expositor of the throbbing heart. He immediately took the two-week furlough allowed him, went off duck hunting. Explained his family: he wanted to find out what it felt like to shoot something...
...been booming ever since the blitz drove actors out of London, and an evacuee audience with them. Towns like Bath, Cheltenham, Exeter, formerly one-night stands, now have A-1 ratings. Wigan, Lancashire (long a music-hall synonym for the end of the earth) recently had a full-fledged drama festival. Transportation for actors is by rail, and the same as for ordinary citizens -cramped, slow, supperless...
...central character in the Scott family drama is Mary Rafferty. Mary was 16 when she left her Irish shanty in Pittsburgh to work as a maid in Ironmaster William Scott's mansion. The Scott Iron Works were still a young, vigorous business. Soon they were to produce shells that won victory for Dewey at Manila Bay. Later the Works descended from father to son, slowly losing their family stamp as they passed more & more into the hands of stockholders, corporation lawyers, bored Scott cousins...
...editor, Sid Forbes, had ever heard of a female copyreader. Forbes did not even like to think of one. The rest of the Journal staff, strong men all, paled. But, game to the core, Ayers hired six female copyreaders: his own secretary, the wife of the Journal's drama critic, the wife of another Journal employe, a publicity man's secretary, a trade publication employe, and a likely candidate fresh from Northwestern University's journalism school...