Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most striking effect and evidence of Green Eyes' authority, and its source in criminality, is Lefranc's attempt to equal or supplant him by matching his crime. "You ... you're beginning to be radiant," says Lefranc. "I wanted to take your place ... your luminous place..." The climactic action of the play is Lefranc's attempt to become what Green Eyes is by murdering the third cellmate Maurice...
...strange excitement these directions indicate. Green Eyes did not dominate the stage, and one of Genet's characteristic enigmas was dodged instead of posed: why does Green Eyes countenance the murder of Maurice, when Maurice is his friend, and when he had already stopped at least one previous attempt of Lefranc to murder Maurice...
...fact remains, however, that Yale will be laying for the Crimson and will be bolstered in its upset attempt by the return to action of two top sophomores, quarterback Tom Singleton and center Mike Pyle. Singleton led the Elis in their last half drive which almost overhauled Dartmouth several weeks ago, and Pyle is being mentioned as a possible all-Ivy candidate. Both of these key men did not face Princeton...
...study will be beamed partly at the general public and partly at teachers, writers and students," Bush noted. "An attempt will be made to define humanistic aspects of natural and social sciences and to recommend general improvements in teaching and scholarship...
...Bruins made one last effort to give the game away, only to be foiled again. This time halfback Bob Carlin fumbled on his own 40 and the ball bounced tantalizingly at the feet of three Crimson players. But in his rattled attempt to pick it up and run--an illegal action anyway--one of them booted the ball out of bounds and back into Brown's possession...