Word: adame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every year, to save their lives from cancer of the larynx, 400 people in the U. S. have their Adam's apples removed. The stump of windpipe which remains is turned over and pulled through a hole in the front of the neck, at the point where a collar button usually rests. Through this hole larynx-less patients (mostly men) do their breathing. But they cannot talk aloud, for their breath gushes up in a storm from their lungs, whistles out through their necks, and first requirement for speech is a vibrating column of air in the throat. They...
James W. Michales, 43 has been elected president of the Freshman division of the Student Union and Adam Yarmalinski has been elected vice-president, it was announced last night by the executive board...
...having a delightful time all the while. A fresh and often amusing plot jogs in and out and around a score of singing and dancing sequences formidably staged by Vincente Minnelli, reaching a high when Hiram Sherman narrates in something akin to blank verse "The Strange Case of Adam Standish" and a "Ballet Peculiare" in fantastic costumes acts out his words with fantastic action...
...scare anyone out of the idea, Capek takes a poor, benighted nihilist, lets him blow up the world, and start all over again. Adam, the nihilist, proceeds to get himself mixed up with a clinging vine, mass production, Nazism, Communism, religion, and democracy, and in the end passes the world back to God, apparently mighty glad to get out of the job of Creator. Yet while Mr. Capek takes agile swats at every political theory in sight, his only constructive theory seems to be to leave everything in the hands of God. Perhaps that's all the Czechs...
...this weird and wild fantasy, the New England Repertory has pulled out some fine actors and an appropriate set. Edwin Pettet heads the cast as Adam and carries the show, backed by a large and lusty supporting cast. It is noteworthy that with such an ambitious script and hefty cast, the production clicks. There are a few rough edges and, while parts of the play itself are completely mystifying, the show has so much color and vitality, and, as a whole, meaning, that it seems well-worth a trip down to the Peabody Playhouse...