...ou can take ordinary people from any walk of life and put them into an amateur theatrical production, and create an entire cast of fictional characte... ...ions. It might affect the cushy jobs of the Scientific laboratory worker and technicians who make a handsome living by producing more, new, even mor...

...ut if we did,” Carol cautioned, “it would be awfully silly to have amateur theatricals. We ought to paint our own scenery and everything, and really d... ...and aside from the fact that it’s evening in the first act, you’re a great technician,’ she said. I must say I think she was pretty sarcastic. I’ve be... ...go, a Rolls-Royce, Lynnhaven oysters, the Su- preme Court Room, a New York theatrical manager down for the try-out of a play, the house where Lincoln ...

...the name, some sort of truth can be found— if only the truth of a childish theatrical ardour in the game of life, as in the novels of Dumas the father... ...t in mere bigness, in the reckless affirmations of commercial men and mere technicians and in the irresponsible paragraphs of the newspapers booming t... ...othing of the cre- dulity which accepts any statement which special- ists, technicians and office-people are pleased to make, whether for purposes of ... ...id catastrophe can be amusing, to see the secretly crestfallen attitude of technicians. They are the high priests of the modern cult of perfected mate... ... it is by some sort of calculation in- volving weights and levels that the technicians re- sponsible for the Titanic persuaded themselves that a ship ... ...them. And, of course, the glorified tradesman, the mummified official, the technicians, and all these secretly disconcerted hangers-on to the enormous...