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...Babe and A Winter's Tale in Georgia. A ruined Southern family waits for the last murderous blow of the Civil War in Sherman's brazen march through the entire swamp of the South. The hurricane comes and the upheaval is as potent as it is wide-ranging. To Mrs. Chestnut, the Southern lady of the manor who tries to preserve her hopes, which comes to mean in the end simply preserving the life of her last son, the effects are puzzling but no more. To the blacks, (the only ones shown in the play are a group of captured...
Working often from documents, of the period and contemporary, Babe has managed to chew on man of the principles of American politics and through them, illustrate those of world history--the frenzied ideology of race, the underlying economic basis of exploitation. At great risk to themselves the Chestnut household insists on appropriating black labor to work its fields; this is satisfying both on an economic level and on the undefinable level at which the Southern family feels more natural and right with black help around...
...quickness was on display for Boston fans last fall, when, in one of the only two games he played, Leo, as flanker, caught a pass from quarterback Babe Parilli and streaked through the Buffalo defense for a snappy touchdown. He also showed fine speed in brief appearances on the kickoff and punt return platoons...
...lovers, particularly Thomas Babe and Joan Tolentino (Hermia and Lysander) evoked consistent and deserved laughter from the happy Opening Night audience, as did Avreml (Avreml!?) Friedman as a Yiddish Peter Quintz...
Halas organized the N.F.L. in 1920, after a hip injury and a .091 batting average freed him from playing right-field for the New York Yankees (his replacement was named Babe Ruth) and allowed him to concentrate on his first love, football. Last week the aftereffects of that same injury finally ended one of the most flamboyant careers in U.S. sport. Complaining that the arthritis in his hip "has progressed to the point where I simply cannot move about quickly enough on the sidelines," the most successful head coach in pro football retired and turned the job over...