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Perhaps the highest compliment that may be paid to their mutual work is that they raise Pinter's first full-length drama to virtually equivalent rank with such later, more lavishly acclaimed dramas as The Caretaker and The Homecoming. Actually, The Birthday Party seems to possess a more vivid symbolic imagery and a greater sense of motion than the other two plays. Like Waiting for Godot, although in a totally ominous sense, this is a play about waiting. Stanley (Robert Phalen) is a piano-playing recluse hiding out as a boarder in a small provincial town. The landlady (Betty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Spirited Skull-Puzzler | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

Guenther is only one of the Harvard persons in the campaign hierarchy. Arrold Waters '71 is the head fund raiser, while Alan Gerlach '71 is chief statistician. "Gerlach's one of the few persons I wouldn't challenge to a political nonsense contest," DiCara said Monday, extending a rare compliment. Chip Moore '72 will also have a big role this summer. Cindy Johnston, who will do a poll for DiCara, is a Wellesley student. But DiCara claims to have less aristocratic types working at the important grassroots level...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: The Larry DiCara Story Or "How to Become Mayor of Boston" | 2/20/1971 | See Source »

...hope that the centennial year is to inaugurate the era of good feeling between Harvard and Yale. The duello is a custom instituted by gentlemen, and presupposes a code of honor. Duels are ever polite, for the consent of a gentleman to measure swords is in itself a compliment to his adversary, and implies a certain parity of position and sympathy of sentiment. We hope, then, that the future contests between Yale and Harvard will not be marred by the expression of any feeling less creditable than honorable emulation. The students of Yale must certainly see, as we do, that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROWING ASSOCIATION | 2/12/1971 | See Source »

...never seen players from another school treat managers like they do at Harvard, and I mean that as a compliment." soccer manager Walt Tomford said. "I think that Harvard players in general treat their managers very well. A few guys on the soccer team made me mad a few times but for the most part I'd do just about anything for them...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: A Manager and His Merry Men | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

...time to be resolutely optimistic-and once again turn the spotlight toward Bok. Burr graciously acknowledged each compliment on his choice, but shortly turned to a small notice board to find the room number for the luncheon. It crumbled to the floor as he touched...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Francis Burr: the Man Who Selected the Man | 1/12/1971 | See Source »

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