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...current production of "The Mikado" will probably be a disappointment. While a play like "Hamlet" falls naturally into a movie, even after it has been dismembered and reassembled differently, "The Mikado" on celluloid somehow just doesn't seem right. Perhaps this is because musical plays are basically improbable; choruses drift on and off stage for no apparent reason, and players sing lines which would be better spoken. But on the stage no one notices these irregularities, and certainly no one cares...
Before every game Munro's main worry is that his team won't "play its one game," but will drift into football tactics. "If we play soccer we can," he says, "we shouldn't have much trouble with most College teams...
...part-time postmaster, gets only $252 a year from the department. "Mostly I work on the railroad. Four of us shovel her clear in winter, and clear out any drift that comes down in summer. I get plenty of time to go fishin'. We don't have any officials, you might say. Depending on who's around, the depot master is mayor...
...took his oath of office has the College deserted the Right side. In the 1850's the students left the temperate Whig Party, and throw themselves in with the zealous Republicans. Sla very was one issue which could make radicals of Harvard men, but when the G.O.P. began to drift down the conservative stream, the College followed. And in 1912 the Republican interests of the College were so divided between William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt '80, that the students, like the nation, picked a Democrat as Chief Executive...
After several months they were joined by a boy, Daniele, whose middle-class parents had been killed in the raid. Forced to assume adult responsibilities and overwhelmed by more than adult miseries, these four children drift and suffer, snatching moments of happiness, the full meaning of which they are too young-or perhaps already too old-to grasp...