Word: babe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This poem won first prize in the Harvard Summer School Poetry Contest. The contest elicited 65 entries and was judged by Thomas Babe '63, teaching fellow in English, Neil Rudenstine, tutor in English, and Fred Anderson, instructor in Expository Writing...
...plays this summer at Agassiz have all been refreshingly irreverent. Aristophanes got new music and lyrics. The Trojan Women became twentieth century refugees. Measure for Measure was liberated from standard period staging. The Agassiz directors, Thom Babe and Timothy Mayer have cut, adapted, rewritten. Composer Bradley Burg has scored electric guitars in a domain usually restricted to recorders...
...with the production of Bertolt Brecht's early play In the Jungle of the Cities, the Agassiz players have grown strangely timid. Thom Babe has directed a lucid, often striking play. But he and his associates, unawed by the Greeks and Shakespeare, are frightened of Brecht. Babe hasn't dared to cut or revise some pointless speeches and scenes. The play is too long, the play's overall impact, too weak...
...whenever the two deadly combatants bring the theater alive there is a set change. Mother of God, there is a set change. Director Babe cast his show expertly and then he cose a designer. As some kind of answer to Chicago's Picasso, quondam director Timothy Mayer has burst upon the world of set design with his impression of a giant grass-hopper with muscular dystrophy. It is supposed to be a cage of pipe that with the help of movable clothes racks and imaginative props can smoothly transform itself into the show's nine sets. The rearrangement of schematic...
...rookie, Scott hit a lot of home runs in the spring. Did this make him just a promising rookie? No. It made him God. Day after day, a George Scott story was as regular a feature in the paper as the television listing. WILL GEORGE SCOTT BREAK BABE'S RECORD? INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE'S FIRST GRADE TEACHER. GEORGE'S MOTHER SAYS GEORGE IS A GOOD BOY. So when Scoot flopped from July to September, it was not merely a case of a hot rookie turning cold. It was those cruel working of fate again...