Word: barroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert Frost are among those who have appeared as conspicuously darker souls to their later readers. Once upon a time Rudyard Kipling was adored as the bully-boy balladeer of the British Empire, a hearty fellow whose prose as well as his poetry thumped as cheerfully as a barroom song-when, that is, he wasn't spinning animal tales for children. Then, in a famous essay, The Kipling That Nobody Read, Edmund Wilson updated this naïf into a modish vision of mid-20th century tragedy...
...Nights in A Barroom is an old-fashioned Victorian melodrama played for all its worth and given a double edge of irony by its quaint moralism In the temperance spirit, the show offers beer for only a dime a glass. This is a most unusual dramatic production for Harvard, a piece of American social history as well as a piece of popular literature. You may never be able to see a piece of nineteenth century soap opera like this again, at least until it's produced on Masterpiece Theatre. At the Agassiz tonight, tomorrow and Saturday...
...Nights in A Barroom. A temperance drama of the decline and fall of a saloon-keeper and the alternating fortunes of his customers. More of a social historical document than an aesthetic success, the piece is played dead seriously but turns out to be quite enjoyable, and, of course, pretty funny to a modern audience. It's good to see the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid, always a good, cause, getting out of the Broadway-musical rut they'd been in for their last few productions Originally they were going to do Witness for the Prosecution but the lead got mono...
...court may not provide a final answer. The special facts of the case, which involve the barroom-brawl murder conviction of Jesse Fowler, may prompt one or more Justices to shift their position. More important, Fowler's death sentence grew out of a North Carolina Supreme Court ruling that reinterpreted existing legislation and read into it mandatory death penalties. The Justices may choose to rule only that such judicial construction was improper and thus leave to another day the broader question. If that happens, death-row inmates would once again have to hope that the redoubtable Justice Douglas...
Granted, the Crimson ruggers may be superior to their Dominican counter parts on the rugby field, but when it came down to prowess in the barroom, the Dominicans emerged the victors...