Word: duel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Puff explains the grosser absurdities of his play to Sneer, played only adequately by Thayer David, stating quite simply: "It's a rule!" Indeed the rules seem to apply quite aptly to the ordinary drama, though not to Sheridan. For "The Critic" sweeps through a duel, a reenactment of the British fleet subduing the Spanish Armada, and a scene in which Nancy Marchand goes mad with her "confidante" Jan Farrand mimicking her exquisitely. In a grand boffola ending Brittania is lowered from the ceiling by a block and tackle. Andrew E. Norman
...dawn of the next day, the navy held all of south Bangkok. Army and police were in control of the north, while air force trainers, fitted with improvised bomb racks, fought a desperate duel with navy ships in the river for command of the west side's dockyards and fuel depots. A black pall spread over the city as a bomb struck square on a fuel depot. At one point, the navy sent out an amphibious landing force, only to see it wiped out from the air. An air-force bomb caught the Sri Ayuthia. Fire broke...
...less casual about the case. It stabbed sharply into the vitals of British pride and security. "It is the same sort of wound," wrote the weekly Time & Tide in a soul-searching article last week, "as that caused in the U.S. by the opening phases of the Hiss-Chambers duel . . . What reality is there now in our English assurances, in whose subtlety and strength we have taken such quiet pride? . . . Here are no lately nationalized refugee scientists, no fly-by-night fanatics making somber rendezvous ... If there is a particle of truth in the sinister rumors and speculations which have...
Saturday's game proved to be more of the same, as Tacy, who had hurried and defeated Dartmouth the day before, scattered three hits and walked none to win a pitching duel from Bob Ward...
...plays with the most zest is Victorian-conservative-at-bay. From modern art to modern man, he was convinced that the 20th Century was a dubious conspiracy against good sense, good taste, and good James Agate. Wearing the chips on his shoulders like epaulets, he waged a steady duel with his time. "To be perfectly frank, I haven't the slightest desire to read any novel later than Henry James, see any play later than Ibsen, hear a note of music after Richard Strauss, or look at any canvas after Renoir ... I hold that when Labor rules the world...