stage setting

Instead, black models are required to remain meekly, silently off stage, waiting for a turn that may never come.

Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

But between the phase of schooling and the phase of adult learning there is an intermediate stage.

In practice we find a good deal of technical study comes into the college stage.

In Scotland and America that is distinguished and thought of clearly as the college stage.

It was in the college stage that most of us made out our religion and made it real for ourselves.