Word: descent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cast was competent at worst, and particularly fortunate in having Robert Goodier as Creon. And as should be, the hero was Oedipus. Canada's young (27) Christopher Plummer was a kingly king-handsome in bearing, condescending in modesty, impetuous in anger, regal even in his sudden descent to the living death decreed for the man who slew his father, lay with his mother and could no more than any other mortal "make the gods do more than the gods will." Through TV, perhaps millions were able for the first time to see and hear the people of Thebes...
...Lloyd P. Jordan inherited from ex-coach Art Valpey a team which had won only one of nine games the previous year. Three years later Jordan produced the College's first winning season since 1946. But after three winning seasons, his teams began the descent which ended this fall in a meager 2-6 record...
Starting from the top of the Museum, Hollister and Fisher began their descent. They never touched the brake rope. "By the time we passed the first floor, we had gained pretty good momentum," Hollister recalls...
...Walter Immigration Act, returned from an inspection trip along the Austro-Hungarian border (where he saw a rebel shot down) to demand that the U.S. quota of arriving refugees be raised from 5,000 to 17,000. The Army reached fast, far and wide to find GIs of Hungarian descent, to include them in a special detachment mobilized to provide food, transportation and other services for Hungarians arriving at New Jersey's McGuire Air Force Base...
...case, extra-special-is sometimes supplied. If the Dogpatchers can be dull when they walk, they are dazzling when they run. Choreographer Kidd's Sadie Hawkins Day ballet is a wonderful matrimonial chase in which Al Capp's womenfolk become amorous Keystone Cops. In the Visigothic descent of the Dogpatchers on General Bullmoose's formal ball, Kidd has created one of the memorable shambles scenes in Broadway history. And for the show's rousingest music, Jubilation T. Cornpone, Kidd has made a packed stageful of bodies rock with movement while their voices are raised in song...