Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These last few walloping scenes can be spendid entertainment. Their blend of unacknowledged incestuous desires, suspected homosexuality, actual heterosexuality, jealousy, revenge, and murder is, even in this production, lively and brisk. But these scenes, in order to make the evening fully worth while, demand emotional acting on a grander scale than the present Warrenton Street group can manage...
...even contest that see-sawed back and forth for 98 minutes, the varsity soccer team and the Williams Ephmen fought to a scoreless tie here yesterday. In the Ephs the Crimson met a determined, well-trained eleven, and the resulting struggle was a battle of equals in every respect...
...Mark J. Mirsky, David Landan, and Thomas Weisbuch, all Harvard undergraduates. Mirsky's poems are mostly short, tight sketches, upon banal subjects, revealing a certain sensitivity, but constantly becoming fouled in their own language. There are technical errors in many of these poems, inaccuracies of expression, inconsistencies in metaphor (even louts, when angry, do not grin, etc.) and a rough, amateurish quality in word choice. There is, however, a certain crude gentleness in these poems which may well develop into some thing not displeasing, if the writer becomes more facile in his language...
...dialogue, though rough in many places is done with some skill and the illusion of the character transformation is reasonably effective. The vast, pseudo-profound generalizations in the tragedy sequence are not always successful, and a number of Revere's phrases (the title, for instance) though pleasant sounding, and even suggestive, have no actual maening. Even with these limitations, however, A Wind of Light is a creditable piece, and should be interesting to see performed at Dunster House later in the year...
...addressed together, as newly arrived Freshmen, talk had centered around the practical problems of college life, such as the nature of the curriculum and the optimum participation in extra-curricular activities. Four years before they had heard very little talk of ethics or character, and since that time perhaps even less...