Word: assists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even with this final assist from the playwright, much of the symbolism is open to interpretation. It strikes me that the play might be taken as an allegory about the role of the artist in contemporary society, but such a view is by no means the only one possible. One of the great virtues of the play is that the characters seem alive and dramatically interesting enough to support a complex symbolic structure without lapsing into incomprehensibility. George Montgomery's new translation for the Poets' Theatre helps, because the words appear clear and musical even in the more difficult passages...
...Athas can be fascinating. Their wide-ranging imaginations, their fantastic sixth sense, these most difficult things are precisely the ones she records best. The tragedy of her teen-age hero and heroine, compounded by a weirdly accidental death and the girl's pregnancy, is moving without a single assist from sentimentality. But what remains finally is a careful delineation of a world that could not be imagined from passing any number of the blind on the street. It is possible that most Dr. Augusts will be as surprised by The Fourth World as those who cannot spell Braille...
Captain John Pille led the freshmen with three goals and three assists, as Jerry Pyle scored three markers and an assist. Tag Edwards, Dick Eldridge, and Bob Hoen tallied twice each, while Manuel Cabral rounded out the Crimson scoring...
Captain Dexter Lewis assisted Gale for a Crimson tally at twelve and a half minutes of the third stanza, but Southall, unassisted, retaliated five seconds before the period closed. Foehl scored on an assist from Southall at 4:23 of the final quarter, and Southall made it 6 to 2 a minute later. Hilliard closed the scoring on an unassisted play two and a half minutes before the match ended...
...varsity lacrosse squad again collapsed in the final period and fell before Cornell, 12 to 9, Saturday in a sloppy, poorly-officiated contest. Captain Dexter Lewis led the attack with three goals and two assists, while Don Dawidoff had three scores and an assist...