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    Significance of Numbers:: Decisions and Connections

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    This document discusses Alice Gerstenberg, an influential member of the American "little theater" movement. It provides biographical details about Gerstenberg such as being born in Chicago in 1885 to wealthy parents and founding the Playwright's Theater in New York in 1992. The document also examines her play "Fourteen" and includes vocabulary words like diagram, debutante, eligible, fluffier, negligence, prohibition, and transmutability.

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    This document discusses Alice Gerstenberg, an influential member of the American "little theater" movement. It provides biographical details about Gerstenberg such as being born in Chicago in 1885 to wealthy parents and founding the Playwright's Theater in New York in 1992. The document also examines her play "Fourteen" and includes vocabulary words like diagram, debutante, eligible, fluffier, negligence, prohibition, and transmutability.

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    This document discusses Alice Gerstenberg, an influential member of the American "little theater" movement. It provides biographical details about Gerstenberg such as being born in Chicago in 1885 to wealthy parents and founding the Playwright's Theater in New York in 1992. The document also examines her play "Fourteen" and includes vocabulary words like diagram, debutante, eligible, fluffier, negligence, prohibition, and transmutability.

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    Significance of Numbers:: Decisions and Connections

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    This document discusses Alice Gerstenberg, an influential member of the American "little theater" movement. It provides biographical details about Gerstenberg such as being born in Chicago in 1885 to wealthy parents and founding the Playwright's Theater in New York in 1992. The document also examines her play "Fourteen" and includes vocabulary words like diagram, debutante, eligible, fluffier, negligence, prohibition, and transmutability.

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    SIGNIFICANCE OF

    NUMBERS:
    DECISIONS AND CONNECTIONS
    SIGNIFICANCE OF NUMBERS:
    DECISIONS AND CONNECTIONS

    Do numbers matter in
    decision making?
    “FOURTEEN”
    Alice Gerstenberg
    ALICE GERSTENBERG
     Considered an innovation of theatrical
    form and an influential member of the
    “little theater” movement in the US.
     She was born in Chicago, Illinois on
    August 2, 1885.
    ALICE GERSTENBERG
     Daughter of Julia and Erich, wealthy
    socialites.
     Studied theater in New York, where
    she composed her first full-length play,
    “The Conscience of Sarah Platt.”
    ALICE GERSTENBERG

     In 1992, she founded the Playwright’


    Theater which she ran until 1945.
    In 1938, she received the Chicago
    Foundation Award for Literature.
    “FOURTEEN”
    Alice Gerstenberg
    VOCABULARY
    DIAGRAM (N)

    A drawing that shows the different


    parts of something and how they
    work together.
    DEBUTANTE (N)

    A young upper-class woman who


    has begun going to special parties
    where she will meet and be seen by
    other people from the upper class.
    ELIGIBLE (ADJ.)

    Available and desirable as a


    husband.
    FLUFFIER (ADJ.)

    Softer and lighter


    NEGLIGENCE (N.)

    Failure to take the care that a


    responsible person usually takes.
    PROHIBITION (N.)

    Action of forbidding.
    TRANSMUTABILITY (N.)

    Being transferred.

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