Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navy Contract Number One has gone to Professor Emory L. Chafee for research in electronics. One of Chafee's jobs is to invent new kinds of vacuum tubes--he is now working on one that spins a light wave around a beam of electrons. The two interact to strengthen an electric current...
...these objections are nothing against the impact of the total show. There is so much beauty in "South Pacific," so much humor, so many convincing characters, so many honest scenes, and such a solid story, that even if it isn't perfect, it seems to be. You can poke around and find faults easily enough; but the show affects you so that you don't feel like doing it. In other words, "South Pacific" adds up to a great evening in the theater...
Barnaby plans to build his team around Bud Ager and Ted Bullard, the only holdovers from last year's singles players. Number one man Ager, who performed well in number five last season, picked up plenty of experience when he played in the Prentice Cup matches last summer against an Oxford-Cambridge squad...
...doubt that he was in complete control and knew just what he was doing. He has a sense of contrast and dramatic effect which he has trained his musicians to execute. The mighty invocation, "Jesu Christe," followed by a bursting "Cum Saneto Spiritu" was as impressive as any singing around. Though the memory of the "Dona Nobis Pacem" was destroyed by a recessional hymn, it was, while it lasted, no less than magnificent...
...They entered his study with the intent of messing up the furniture, found nobody around, and proceeded to turn over some chairs and throw some books around the room...