Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rorem's A Childhood Miracle, produced with two-piano accompaniment by Punch Opera in Manhattan, was a fragile piece of Hawthorne about two little girls whose snowman comes to life and entertains them until grownups drag him indoors and he melts to a puddle by the firelight of reality. Composer Rorem, who now lives in Paris, wields his Ravel-lian style with an almost too delicate hand. But he is, at 32, a master writer for the human voice...
...Quakers crossed the finish line half a length ahead of M.I.T. in a race marred for the Crimson by a snapped rudder wire which forced coxswain George Notter to drag his hands on the starboard side to steer for the last half mile. As a result, the varsity boat finished 18 seconds behind smooth-stroking Penn, whose excellent time...
...books returned as has been employed for decades in Washington. If a student happens to request a book charged to a faculty member, the library aids him in retrieving it by sending the professor a polite card requesting its return. Usually one card is enough, but the months often drag on while the coveted book lies dustily on the professor's book shelf. In the meantime, the undergraduate must either give up his search or read the work in its Greek translation...
...Dublin remembered 1926. That year the Abbey Theater produced O'Casey's since famed The Plough and the Stars, an irreverent treatment of the 1916 Irish revolution. It roused Irish fury to such patriotic heights that shrieking, whistling men and women stampeded for the stage to drag the actors off. Actor Barry Fitzgerald met the first charging patriot with an uppercut that sent him flying back into the stalls. One actress threw her shoe at the attackers. It was caught and thrown back at Poet W. B. Yeats, a director of the Irish national theater, who was vainly...
...summary fashion, smacked the teaser and then the bait. Momentarily surprised, the Captain set down his bottle and shouted, "Give him plenty of line!" This I did, but the island-like serpent took all my new nylon line and all my backing, despite the fact that the star drag was full...