Word: duel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would I like Joseph? I should like you to tell me what Vice means," and goes on in that vein--well, any play like that asks to be taken seriously only at a distance. If there is any poetry (or truth, if that's what you look for) in Duel of Angels, it's not in the dialogue...
...huff. Paola and Barbette then appear and tell Lucille the truth of the matter. Blanchard comes back briefly to tell his wife to leave his house. To Armand's great consternation, Lucille doesn't fill her husband in on Paola's revelation. Paola, delighted, announces she has won the duel and has proved that life is rotten. O no, cries Lucille, and producing a phial of poison, she kills herself, to prove, so she says, that the world has purity and worth. Exit Paola. Barbette delivers a soliloquy to the corpse about what beasts men are, meanwhile purloining Lucille...
...other actors had less crucial parts, so they weren't as disappointing. I do wish Miss Krause, whose Paola was the mistress of so many scenes, had let us see some fire or some terror. The way she took command it was hardly a duel...
...basis of early season performances, it is virtually impossible to pick a winner from the three teams. Eliot has beaten Lowell, which defeated Kirkland; both Kirkland and Lowell have dumped Winthrop, which predictably knocked off Eliot in a defensive duel...
...muddy duel between the Harvard freshman eleven and Dartmouth ended in a narrow 10-7 Crimson victory yesterday. Harvard's triumph came on the toe of Tom Wynne, who kicked a 20-yard field goal in the last six minutes of the game...