Word: copses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1728 a poet colleague of Fielding named John Gay decided to take Italian opera for a ride. He picked his tunes from the songs the butchers & bakers sang, strung them on a lowbrow plot about London cops, gangsters and bums, made his tattered characters ape the flouncy foibles of...
Where is Harvard? Today it's here, tomorrow it won't be. Tomorrow night it will be just rows of empty windows, starting glumly out over the Charles. The cops will tread their quiet beats, and the commuters will wait peacefully in the Square for the Arlington bus, glad to...
Despite the efforts of Buster Keaton and the Keystone Cops, who provide some uproarious sequences, "Hollywood Cavalcade" belongs to the great middle class. There is entirely too much of Don Ameche, and too little of Hollywood. No impression is created of the glitter town's lusty early years. In effect...
Yet the shivering spectators would not have traded seats with any sun-baked fan in Florida or California. In as exciting a game as has been seen in its 57-year history, the underdog Bulldogs tore the Harvard team to tatters, kept them away from the Yale goal line until...
Says Saroyan: Cops have hearts and streetwalkers souls; it is interference, institutions, authority that degrade humanity. And in a gush of feeling, he preaches a benevolent anarchy of live-&-let-live. That feeling gives his play warmth, faith, also a measure of falseness. For to exorcise evil and unhappiness, Saroyan...