Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some time in our shadowy national past, before really big bombs, a culture existed carefree as birds, blithesome as Puck, bawdy as only early twentieth-century Americans can be. Yes, back in the days when no one in the country seemed over seventeen years old, when nothing mattered but humor. And, of course, gadget-makers that we are, we manufactured it. Yes, the days of the Joke Generation...
...Murray in the backstroke, Jim Stanley in the orthodox breaststroke, captain John Hammond in the butterfly, and Dick Seaton in the freestyle, comprise the group that gave the Crimson 400-yard medley relay team first place in the Easterns and fourth in the Nationals last spring. They are all back, and presumably improved with increased experience...
Considered either as a play or as Jimmy Porter's interrupted monologue, Look Back in Anger has more substance than can be exhausted or even touched on in this small corner of the editorial page: it combines sociological analysis, a dissection of the zeitgeist, and a moving affirmation of the romantic view that to live fully, even sorrowfully, is better than to live sealed off from experience...
...supporting actors are all adequate, which means okay-but-not-very-good, but Mr. Osborne has given them little to work with. Next to Jimmy Porter they all appear not-quite-realized. Fortunately, when Jimmy is not talking he is usually being talked about. Look Back in Anger is his play and it is a good...
Wigglesworth will be turned back to the Freshman class with the opening of Quincy House in the Fall, according to current plans of the Administration, Dean Bundy indicated yesterday...