Howard, Philip;
New words for old
Oxford University Press, 1977, 127 pages
ISBN 019519988X, 9780195199888
topics: | language | english | essays
SCENARIO: From the artificial glare of the footlights it [the word "scenario"] has stepped down into the commonplace gloom of the auditorium in the footsteps of tragic, comic, dramatic, role, the two chief protagonists, and other showy histrionic predecessors. And like them, down there it often looks absurdly overdressed and stagy.