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Word: drama (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students' choice of majors has become almost unlimited, with the institution of interdepartmental majors ranging from Science and Music and Engineering and Drama to any combination the administrative board can be persuaded to approve...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Yale Hunts Successor to Retiring President; Tafts Being Considered | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

Perhaps "The Closing Door" is the right title for the new play at the Wilbur, because it does give some warning of its melodramatic nature. But "The Slowly Opening Door" would more accurately categorize this mystery drama...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Closing Door | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

...reviews here. Most of the praise is deserved. The photography is subtle and brilliant, a fresh realistic idiom for the moviegoer lulled by the stylized American technique, that, together with masterful directing, (by Carol Reed, director of Odd Man Out), and superb acting, raise a weaker plot to excellent drama...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: The Fallen Idol | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Regina (written & composed by Marc Blitzstein; produced by Cheryl Crawford in association with Clinton Wilder) sets Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes to music. As music, it is more clever than distinguished; as drama, it is clearly a littler Foxes. But on its own terms-and they are wisely very much its own-it is an exhilarating and enjoyable show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical Play in Manhattan, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

White Heat. James Cagney's spectacular comeback in a drama about a mother-dependent gangster (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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