Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paradoxically, the chilling anger of The Visit springs from the fertile, unangry mind of a bulky (230 Ibs.), cigar-smoking Swiss burgher with the tastes of a bon vivant, the genial manner of a retired cook. Surrounded by his wife Lotti (once an actress), three children, four dogs and seven cats, 37-year-old Friedrich Düurren-matt churns out his bitter plays from a picture-postcard villa in the green woods overlooking Lake Neuchatel...
...love, and brings home Hubby No. 2, a tall, wan, thirtyish lawyer named Maurice. Almost instinctively, Isa, Nathalie, and the demented sister proceed to devour Maurice's peace of mind. They use the weapons of the unarmed: inertia, silence, cunning. They cough when poor Maurice lights a cigarette, cook all the dishes he detests, fall silent, as if spied on, when he enters a room...
...inning later, Terrier pitcher Alf Kearns, who had control problems in the early frames, hit Stu Forbes with a pitch. Cook advanced him with a bunt single, and after a sacrifice both of them scored on Forbush's second safety...
...Cook allowed only six hits, four of them in the eighth, when B.U. scored its single run. The Yardlings collected ten hits...
...undefeated freshman baseball team picked up its eighth straight win of the season yesterday, whipping the B.U. freshman squad, 4 to 1. Right-hander Wally Cook went all the way to gain the victory, his fourth of the year...