Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stupendous historical drama had been scheduled for last week?there had never been anything like it before, on any stage-but in the acting it proved to be highly undramatic, at least to U.S. spectators. The greatest empire since Rome was offering self-rule to the vast and legendary subcontinent of India?and there was not one quotable line or breathtaking episode...
...drama bogged down in the unreadable "statements" of politicians, it was energized from the wings. Two magnificent prompters were heard: the President of the great republic of the New World sent a personal messenger with a note to "someone" on the Indian stage; and a Chinese soldier, Chiang Kaishek, publicly intervened to advise India to join with the white man's empire to fight for freedom everywhere. Meanwhile, the enemy advanced-a horde of savage fighters from the far-off islands of Japan, and, looming beyond the northwest mountains, Hitler's Legions of Nihilism...
...There was also time for sentiment, hitherto the stumbling block of U.S. radio propaganda. Army Hour managed it without slopping over. Its brief drama of a World War I veteran seeing his son off to World War II was just about right. Said he: "If we'd finished the job when we were there, you wouldn't be going now." Said the son: "You had your April the sixth; we've got our December the seventh. . . . This time we're going to fix it so this thing can't ever happen again...
...School of Humanities will absorb the old School of Letters (literature and languages), include arts, history, languages and literature, speech and drama, music, philosophy. Cutting across department lines, it will have a basic course devoted to "study of man as a rational and artistic being seeking to understand himself and the universe in which he lives...
...scenery continues to be predominantly mid-Victorian and its acting in the good old Italian tradition, pure ham with a whiff of garlic. These are real objections that nobody would try to deny, but they have nowhere near the importance for opera that they would for spoken drama. Opera's source, and its principal excuse for existence, is the wonderful physical satisfaction of hearing a well-trained human voice, an appeal not basically different from that of a good, boxing match or track meet, which, of course, is no argument for opera's artistic value, but a very good...