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...traditional Shakespearean performance, Freinkel has created a play with more internal conflicts than even Macbeth himself. Given the problems of producing college Shakespeare, perhaps she should have adopted a less reverent attitude and an even more experimental appraoch. Like its accursed protagonist, this production of Macbeth seems "cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound in to saucy doubts and fears...
...play. Most of the Brandeis stage is unused, since the set is placed so far forward. The playing area is unduly shallow and so steeply raked that it must be difficult to move about on. The cast must, to use Macbeth's words, feel "cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd." Perhaps the Lake Forest stage is unusually small; but if so, some adjustment ought to have been made here by pushing the set back or even chucking it entirely in favor of a bare stage with movable furniture and props...
...After he had beaten all comers and therefore was no longer of use to his master, Molineaux was given his freedom. He moved to New York and became the premier boxer on the Waterfront. Exhausting American competition, Molineaux then went to England to take on the English champion, Tom Cribb. Molineaux battered the white man for 23 rounds. Cribb's handlers saw that he was unable to continue, but instead of throwing in the towel, went to the referee charging that Molineaux had lead weights concealed in his fists. The referee, who by the rules should have given the fight...
First U.S. prizefighter to compete for the world's heavyweight championship was a Negro named Tom Molineaux. A Virginia slave whose master freed him for knocking out the bully of a neighboring plantation, Molineaux went to England in 1810, fought famed Tom Cribb, gave him a severe thrashing for 30 rounds. In the 31st round, Molineaux fractured his skull against a ring post, lost the fight. Cribb beat him again before a crowd of 40,000 in 1811. The black fisticuffer was found dead in an Irish army barracks...
...strange soil. It is little wonder that these men meet their faculty advisors with almost no idea of what courses, aside from prescribed courses, they wish to take in their first year. For even if the range of choice in the first year is "cabin'd, cribb'd, bound in", yet there is some choice. And aside from this point, the descriptions are so curt and dry that they are really repellent, as Mr. Woodbridge notes. Therefore freshmen naturally hate English A and German A with the feeling that they are mere sheep being lead to the slaughter...