Word: casey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adapted from a play about the Black-and-Tan Wars, The Rising of the Moon, whose title was given to the trilogy. Lady Gregory's romance has a curiously mixed tone; she alternates bleakness and comedy, much as O'Casey and Behan were to do later...
...Knock at the Door proves a thoroughly engaging reading version of the first volume of Sean O'Casey's full-flavored autobiography. In an arrangement by Paul Shyre, six people seated in front of lecterns recount a late Victorian Dublin childhood that ends when a twelve-year-old boy has "learned poetry and . . . kissed a girl." The boy was not just any Dublin child-beyond the gifted writer he would some day be, he was threatened with blindness; and in a shabby and fiercely Protestant home was watching his father...
...humor too-often right in the midst of misfortune, as in what might be called "Coming Home from the Funeral." And there is small-boy adventure, whether with girls or tram rides or being sent to the tobacconist's for "an ounce of Cavendish cut-plug." O'Casey everywhere respects the dignity of childhood as a full existence in itself, as he recaptures a boy's hazy sense that a world offered by Victorian grownups as square is, all the same round...
...time the breaks went against that myth, Casey Stengel. In a White Sox game this year, Casey left in a .100 hitter, pitcher Bob Grim, to hit with a tie score and two out in the ninth because he had no pinchhitters left. Grim hit the first home run of his career, swinging blindly...
...Yankees, the big man, as usual, was crotchety Manager Casey Stengel. Some of his first stringers were ailing, among them slugging Centerfielder Mickey Mantle, but he had his long benchful of reserve power. Although his pitchers limped through midseason, they were back in top form. They were not the Yankees of Ruth and Gehrig, but they were heavy with power, and 8-to-5 favorites...