Word: doom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...role on life's stage, like ours, soon ends. But what happens to the law is of the gravest moment. The preservation unimpaired of our basic rules of procedure is an end far more desirable than that of hurrying a single sinner to what may be his merited doom...
...beginning of the season, some poor pessimists looked at the Crimson tennis team and predicted the netmen would have a rough year. Those pessimists--prophets of doom--pointed to the other fine teams in the league, to Harvard's tough opening schedule, and finally to the loss of the number one player, Harris Masterson...
This is not to say that certain doom is to befall the club as it opens its "regular" season at Penn. It's just that Quaker coach Bob Seddon doesn't hold much stock in the Crimson's early season record...
Exit the King, one of Ionesco's later and more elaborate plays, is a ritualized orchestration of one man's death. Beranger, the infirm king of a wasted nation, lapses into childhood memories, sensuous daydreams, and anguished tirades while trying to understand his impending doom. One of his wives, the hateful Marguerite, and the attending physician, urge him to "abdicate" his life. His second wife Marie stands opposed--consoling him with love and hope, beckoning him to resist death...
...always?) and what is more, pertinent to the Crimson performers. David Partridge was running for student president of San Pueblo High School and was on the verge of losing to a brilliant girl who had the support of David's sister. David sat down in the face of impending doom and had a heart-to-heart talk with...