Word: conner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story follows Jennie Malone as she goes with her irresponsible actor-husband, James O'Conner, and their two children from one dilapidated theatre to another. The company presents spectacular melodramas that are presented on stage with intentional exaggeration. The production's depressing central theme deals with Jennie's struggle to save her marriage for the sake of her children, though her husband's consistent inability to face unpleasant realities causes her to lose all respect for him. In the end she realizes that by staying with him she is only dragging herself down. She eventually decides to leave...
...High is Better Than Low" number, unsuccessfully combined choppy yelling of words with singularly bad choreography. The result was an almost totally spastic effect. Later O'Conner, played adequately by Dennis O'Keefe, tries to convince his family to come with him to his recently acquired theatre (a dilapidated church) in Seattle. His song's lyrics, "There's no battle, no rattle, in Seattle" followed by a boorish "Boom, boom, boom" are equally distasteful. Occasionally, in some of the comic routines, and in Miss Martin's warm expression of her love for life, in "Before I Kiss The World Goodbye...
Crimson rebounders had the back-beards pretty much to themselves Saturday against Tufts, but tonight may be different. HC center Bob Foley (no relation to Jack "the shot") is a strong backboard man, and forward Pete O'Conner effectively assists...
Aside from Roberts, the Crimson has only two major worries from the Columbia offense. Converted fullback Tom O'Conner plays this year at halfback, and he usually gains yardage on each line assault. Fullback Mike Hassan is the Lion's top ground gainer, but scouts say he is inconsistent...
...instead of moving on to the next classes, a crowd of students gathered in front of Conner Hall, where a campus newcomer named James H. Meredith had just completed a political science class. As Meredith appeared in the doorway, the waiting students began hissing him. He was a fellow student, a fellow Mississippian. and a fellow human being. But these likenesses were submerged by a terrible intensity of difference...