Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This time the battle may take a different course. John Stiegman's men took out years of frustration on poor Lafayette last week; the final count was an inhuman 47-0. Lafayette is not Oklahoma, of course, but it takes something to get that many touchdowns scored. The current theory is that Stiegman may have a football team able to play respectable ball...
...Jean Anouilh. The world will ferret out purity and destroy it-this is the theme that obsesses Anouilh. In The Rehearsal, the worldlings commit an "elegant and sophisticated crime," the murder of the true love, as undeniably transfiguring as it is seemingly banal, that exists between a jaded French count and a virginal governess. Around this crime Anouilh has fashioned a subtle, scintillating, and bitter black comedy. The ironic gaiety is inverted mourning, the unseen tears are those that disillusionment sheds over its lost illusions...
...Rehearsal is a play-within-a-play. The time is now, although the count and keeper of an 18th century chateau is rehearsing his costumed entourage in an 18th century comedy by Marivaux. The bulk of his cast is a very aristocratic, very French menage a quatre: the count (Keith Mitchell) and his mistress, the countess (Coral Browne) and her lover. Another actor is the count's longtime friend (Alan Badel), a professional womanizer sardonically named Hero. According to the code of this set, the only liaison dangereuse is with a person outside one's own class...
...When the count casts the 20-year-old governess (Jennifer Hilary) as the .young heroine of the Marivaux play, he courts this danger. As he rehearses with her, the count discovers a love he thought himself incapable of, a love that fulfills itself by giving rather than taking. In its romantic purity, this is a love that is outside time and circum stance, beyond good and evil...
...called "Athens of America" seems impervious to the idea that big cities need the best schools in the country. At last count, 38% of Boston's 90,000 pupils attended schools more than half a century old, including one built in 1847. Many are ill-lit, malodorous fire traps. Boston's schoolchildren are jammed in tight-40 to a class at many schools. It takes three or four years to build a school in Boston, and systematic overhauling is unheard...