Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Around this core, however, the play is built in a fairly routine way. Except for frequent trips in and out of a comfortable jail, the plot does not take the hero far. Nor need it. But the playwright might have steered clear of at least some of his many stock situations, which compete with abundant sets of uninspired lines in what seems to be a race for expectability. Even love rears its precious little head to add a tired touch of creeping sentimentality. And, regrettably, the author has felt satisfied with stocking the stage with a cast of cliches...
...Charities themselves were dubious choices. Except for PBH, which will probably receive its money, none of the groups had any particular meaning to Harvard students. Having already done our bit for WUS, it seems unnecessary to contribute to it again, particularly when Radio Free Europe or CARE are far better known and perhaps more worthwhile...
...that time, the Club drew largely from the Commonwealth Avenue, set of the Boston populus; today, that set has exurbed itself to the currently more fashionable surrounding communities, but the atmosphere of the Club remains largely the same, except for the introduction of fairly sizable numbers of undergraduates and young alumni. If you were to drop in in the late afternoon, you would still find remnants of old Boston enthroned in the same leather chairs they have used for decades. There is no mistaking the fact that a club is a club, and the Harvard Club is no exception...
...Rides Service was deemed a success except for a $40 expenditure on publicity fliers which were thrown out in housecleaning. The Service will be given to the Crimson Key beginning next Monday since it can be handled by them with no extra expense...
...acting in the other roles is fine, without exception. It is the look of the characters that most gives them life. Waspish grandfather Kashirin (M.G. Troyanovsky), Uncle Mikhail (A. Zhukov) whose nose seems to run down from the part in his hair to the floor, and the carnival clowns, who don't need to talk: they all look what they are and, in every gesture, are what they look like. None more than V.O. Massalitinova who plays massive bell-like Granny Akulina. Except, perhaps, for her, no single character dominates the film. It offers instead a horde of images...