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New words for old

Philip Howard

Howard, Philip;

New words for old

Oxford University Press, 1977, 127 pages

ISBN 019519988X, 9780195199888

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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.


amitabha mukerjee (mukerjee [at] gmail.com) 09 May 04