Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon Ellida Wangel, the Lady from the Sea, that the unforgiving light of Ibson's querying is focused. And it is upon her that the whole burden of the play must fall. The unfolding of the story which is in reality an unfolding of her mind, a mind wedded to the sea, is a rapid matter, swift, sure and inevitable up to the very close. A Duse alone could maintain the tempo, with no waste gestures, no amateur hysterics which might interrupt the play's relentlessness. Two weeks of rehearsal of such a part sound farewal. Yet that...
...spasmodic spurts he tells the intimate story of a sensitive boy struggling to become a writer in the face of physical frailty and parental distrust, in mean towns built beside buffalo wallows. Beneath the burden runs a hysterically bitter ground-bass-a dirge for everything Puritan-and snarling discords to the effect that constipation was the pioneers' curse; that their children were rickety, their politics poltroonish, their women spavined, their teeth acid, their minds (including the author's) stunted and deranged, all because they failed to raise cabbages and take lime into their systems...
...Blue forward barrier, and opened big gaps through which the hanks tore off long gains. Randall, Brown quarterback, was the outstanding player of the day. It was he who directed the magnificent opening charge of the Bear, who, with Mishel; successfully engineered the passing attack, and who carried the burden of competing with McGunigle, the Yale punter. All these duties the stocky quarterback performed in a workmanlike manner that stamped him as a dangerous menace to the teams yet remaining on the Brown schedule...
...burden of the Green rushing offense will fall on the Crimson tackles Pratt and Coady. Coady has not regained his form of last season yet, but is back in shape and should be a big obstacle to the Dartmouth advance. Pratt, barring a tendency to play too high, is an effective tackle. Lindner and Clark are able replacements...
With French definitely out of tomorrow's game, the kicking burden will fall on Putnam, although if Chauncey is put in the backfield during the afternoon he will probably handle the punting assignment. Against Dartmouth Coady is expected to do the kicking, but it is doubtful if the Crimson captain has had enough practice thus far to take over the job while he is playing tomorrow...