Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play was The Troublemakers, a drama about college students who beat to death another boy because of some campus newspaper articles he had written.* Director John Frankenheimer (Williams. '51), a gangly TV veteran of 27, was disappointed from the start with George Bellak's TV adaptation of his original play. So Frankenheimer called in TV Author Rod (Requiem for a Heavyweight) Serling to doctor the script. With accomplished Actor Ben Gazzara to play the role, Frankenheimer wanted to expand the part of Stanley, the dead boy's roommate, who makes an effort to stop the fatal roughhouse...
...first quarter, the Princeton-Dartmouth game was buried in snow. Yard-markers disappeared, officials blended with players, spectators shuddered over a dwindling supply of Scotch and began to beat a retreat from Palmer Stadium. But nothing seemed to bother a lanky Princeton halfback named Dan Sachs-neither wind nor snow nor wet ball, nor well-drilled Dartmouth line. He scored almost every way possible, passing for one touchdown, running back a kick for another, intercepting a pass for a third, schussing over from scrimmage for a fourth. Fans with antifreeze and the determination to last out the afternoon saw Princeton...
Elsewhere, other teams edged toward the end of an upset-ridden season: ¶ A last-period pass bounced off two Notre Dame defenders before Iowa End Don Norton finally caught it and beat the Irish...
...secret report" of Stalin's "paranoiac blood lust"-to realize his mistake. His fumbling book of remorse and recantation is pervaded by pathos. "Why?" he keeps asking in hurt, "say-it-ain't-so, Joe" tones, but Joe long ago gave the definitive answer: "The truncheon-beat, beat, beat, beat, and then beat again...
...that matter graduate (i.e., New Yorker) writing today, depend heavily on understatement, although Nash's understatement, paradoxically, is often prolix. The supreme achievement, however, is Arthur Freeman's poem "Whew": in a satire of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl", he has managed to get the muse of the Beat Generation for once to understate herself. This is no mean accomplishment...