Word: babe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clearly this story has its gruesome elements, and Thomas Babe has appropriated them in order, it appears, to account for the behavior of Walter and Griselda. "On his lust present was al his thoght," Chaucer writes of the Lord (meaning his immediate pleasure or wish), and speaks of his "merveillous desir his wyf t'assaye." Babe, ingeniously, has translated this "lust" or "desir" into Walter's elaborate obsession with a pageant he is composing. We do not learn much about the pageant except that it presumably celebrates some ideal of constancy and that it involves the character of Herod...
That is what I assume Babe is getting at, and unfortunately it all sounds much better than it is. The first act charmingly and subtly presages the fourth, but a prodigious deal of dross is stuffed to fill the gap between them. Characters pass the time mysteriously hiding information from each other in innumerable false suspenses, or alternatively describing over and over what has been going on. When these devices begin to wear thin, Babe returns to the stage a crew of tedious mystics who repeat each other's lines after the familiar pattern of the Western--you know...
...program is intended to tap creative writing on a college-wide basis, Henry James, Jr., Lamont librarian, said yesterday. Participants will include many well-known student writers, such as play-wrights David Cole '62, Thomas Babe '63, and Frederick H. Gardner '63, and poets Robert Dawson '64, and Sidney Goldfarb...
...week to caddy and another $15 a week as a copy boy at the Washington Post, which McLean happened to own. By the age of 20, Povich was the Post's sports editor. The Post was poor then and could not afford the ghost celebrities-Babe Ruth, John McGraw, Adela Rogers St. Johns-that its competition featured. So Povich composed an ad: "Colonel Charles Lindbergh, Vice President Charles Dawes, Aimee Semple McPherson and Charles Chaplin will not cover the World Series for the Post! This baseball classic will be covered by our baseball writers...
...Loeb. Two plays in German will be presented by the Student Theater of Kiel, Germany (April 19-20). The Braggart Warrior is a Latin comedy in a new translation (April 24-27); and Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I (May 9-11 and May 15-18) will follow Babe's play to the Loeb stage...