Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little Foxes Go to the Surburbs would have been the better title for what Albee has given us. Composed of equal parts naivete' and cliche', the play is all about Money and the Tyranny with which it Rules our damnable Lives. Albee's irony is that society condemns moon-lighting as a call girl, but rewards the more pervasive practitioners of the art like the research chemist who perfects germ warfare or the publisher who exploits trash. And so we enter the Age of the Whore...
...competence of the current Charles production really should have been devoted to one of Albee's better plays--almost any of them would have qualified. Everything in the Garden needs to be pruned down to one act and perhaps trimmed of a few low-hanging morals. As for Albee, he'd better return to his former role of understanding bartender. He's a pretty understanding guy when he just listens and passes on what he hears, but when he starts talking about how rotten the whole world is you'd better forget...
Harvard will be looking to overall team depth and the scoring punch of the sophomore line of DeMichele-Cavanagh-Owen. Penn, still looking for its first Ivy win, has a young team which has done better in outside competition, beating St. Nick's and winning a Pennsylvania hockey tournament...
...film history, as are the time-compression montages of Frederique and Why in St. Tropez. The fact that these films may point the way to a new development in narrative film-making is perhaps secondary to the immediate realization that, like all great art, they teach us to see better...
...took the lead when 152-pound Jack St. John narrowly defeated Pat Coleman, 4-2. Lee feels that St. John was probably their best wrestler. Things got worse before they got better as the Crimson's Mark Faller lost, 3-1, and Cornell went ahead by six points...