Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Roosevelt it was a special treat-not merely his first chance since Pearl Harbor to put the administrative labyrinths of Washington far behind him, but a trip with all the kind of drama and secrecy that he loves best. For a fortnight he could chuckle at the amazement on the faces of those who saw him touring, for a fortnight savor the headlines that would sweep the country when he returned to let down the bars of censorship...
Magic (by G. K. Chesterton) and Hello, Out There (by William Saroyan) provide a double bill that prompts a single verdict. Both playwrights are much better at dialogue than drama. Saroyan's one-acter is more rewarding because it's simpler and more human. It tells of a guy (Eddie Dowling) in a small-town Texas jail who, before he is killed by a mob, talks through the bars of his cell with the jail's wispish slavey of a cook (Julie Haydon). Theirs is a brief rapprochement, a doomed romance, of two desperately lonely, anonymous souls...
...drama enacted was as big as the U.S. and as small as the motives of little men. Its chronology was simple and its meaning plain. On Sept. 7 President Roosevelt asked the Congress for these new powers over farm prices and wages, and set Oct. 1 as the deadline. He stipulated that a fair farm price was 100% of "parity," * and no more...
...instance, Bennington has male students. Not many, but a handful. And these young men are awarded scholarships to take a special course in the drama, and they are all great actors, because they play the male leads in all Bennington's productions...
...Nast judgments set patterns far beyond Vogue's own cirulation of a few hundred thousand. To his own women-readers Nast brought the excitement of modern art, from Seurat to Modigliani and to Covarrubias, the breath-taking photography of Steichen, Beaton, Lohse, Baron Hoyningen-Huene; and the vivid drama of fashion-drawings by Carl Ericsson, Sigrid Grafstrom, Count René Bouët-Willaumez and many others, which in turn influenced all U.S. advertising art. Vogue became a feminine bible of taste. Even its cheesecake was cool and cultured: cheesecake prettily iced. Technician Nast became a millionaire...