Word: cole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eliot and David Cole...
...Jerry Cole slugged his way to a TKO over Art Kruggel during the second round the freshman 145 lb. match. One of the most popular fights took place when Fremont-Smith met Rick Jones for the freshman 155 lb. championship. Alh floored twice, Fremont-Smith scored heavily against Jones before losing by 0 in the third round...
...issue opens with a drama by David Cole, En Croisade--the winner of an enterprise called "the first annual ADVOCATE-HDC playwrighting (sic) contest." Mr. Cole has evidently decided that the stage is eminently suited to flippant dialectic: his play does not have characters, but rather attitudes, few actions of the body, but many intricate actions of the soul. This sort of mental horseplay does not necessarily doom a literary effort, but in Mr. Cole's case the tone is annoyingly didactic, the intention overly profound--and the results predictably dull...
Four characters, bound for Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade, constitute Mr. Cole's instruments in his tussle with the fates. The Bishop expresses a worldly skepticism; the Merchant an enthusiastic nihilism; the Baron is the only truly faithful mortal of the bunch; and the Angel, determined but confused, finally tumbles into the water instead of soaring into the Christian empyrean. Mr. Cole tries to make his characters palatable by casting a thin gauze of mockery over the entire apparatus. This technique, though well handled, fails to disguise the essential fatuity of his conception, for though the play is witty...
...pity that Mr. Cole did not turn his mind to something which more satisfactorily suited the dramatic form; for the reader of En Croisade encounters numerous admirable passages. Mr. Cole's style is tight yet colorful; many of his lines are actually funny, and others would be if they were spoken by skillful actors. He is also able to devise elegant metaphors without causing embarrassment. Mr. Cole could have written something much better than En Croisade, and doubtless sometime will...