Word: begging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast's performance is the ribaldry Schwartz has injected. The greatest ham, and consequently the most enjoyable performer, is Walter Swap, who plays Hanswurst. He cavorts in five different disguises, and his impersonation of a crackly-voiced beggar woman in "I Beg of You" nearly steals the show. Sandra Robbins, as Columbina, sings the eighteenth century melodies beautifully, if a bit too softly, but she has trouble warming to the sex-ridden requirements of the twentieth-century script...
...horrible story. Apparitions dressed in deathly black, they visit the evening rehearsal of a Charles stage production, looking for another author to release them from their torturing memories. Flattering the Director (Joe Ponazecki) and explaining their plight, they alternately relive the painful events of their in-escapable past and beg the cast to stage their story. Pirandello's craft reaches its height in the second act, where he switches with startling case between the horror of the character's fictional world and the cast's farcically "real" existence. Compared with the intensity and immediacy of the characters' experience, the cast...
Merchants have been calling and dropping by all week to beg forgiveness ... A Mr. B-- got up and begged in front of last week's mass meeting. He took up nearly an hour with the heart-rending story of his long-time underground friendship for the good colored people of Canton. The committee has decided to keep the squeeze on all of them for a while--to impress them with the latent power of the Negro community ... All of their efforts at retaliation so far have been clumsy and amateurish, but the state legislature has just passed a bill making...
Sometimes painful letter combinations turn up unasked for. The wife of a Houston judge burst into the registration office weeping, to beg relief from the ordeal of driving around town with P-U on her car's front and rear. A Los Angeles psychiatrist who found himself with a tag bearing the letters N-U-T explained that, while he did not mind it in the least, he was afraid some of his patients might think he was making fun of them...
...desperately short of students. It aims to enroll about 6,000, now has only 550. With its outsize faculty of 109, the college maintains, for example, one math course for two students, one geology class for one student. Thus curiously balked at home, Kenya's secondary graduates beg or borrow to get a higher education overseas. Hundreds flocked to the U.S. in recent years as part of Justice Minister Tom Mboya's "airlift," which provided scholarships to U.S. colleges. Kenya now has 1,150 students in the U.S., 1,400 in Britain, 200 behind the Iron Curtain...