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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...counts. Right?" But as Steiner points out, "The trouble is, where does it count?" This, alas, is a problem both for Steiner and Zane. Where does one draw a distinction between the moral and immoral? Neither Wyeth, Steiner, nor Zane seems to be particularly concerned with this question except to the extent that they raise it, then let it drop...

Author: By Edmund B. Games, | Title: Back to Beatland Again: A Study in Moral Decay | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

With both Yale and the Crimson entrenched in the second division of the Eastern League, nothing rides on tomorrow's game except the usual glory of a victory against the Elis. But unbeknownst to many, the varsity is currently leading the Greater Boston League race, and triumph over the Terriers today would mean the GBL championship...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Baseball Varsity to Meet B.U. Today, Yale Tomorrow | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

...easy to spot what is wrong with Puntila, but the satisfactions of the evening, except for certain beautiful erotic-comic passages, are harder to pin-point. The play is based on a group of Finnish stories, and it manages to achieve a vaguely Finnish atmosphere: bracing and sparse. The series of unpretentious, easily-changeable settings (designed by Robert Skinner and Lorna Kreuger) have a good deal to do with this; the backdrops for successive scenes are frankly mounted on a large picture frame, and the effect is never more Brechtian than when substantial sections look as if they were made...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Puntila | 5/14/1959 | See Source »

...Except for boyhood aspirations, Feiffer never wanted to be anything but a cartoonist. When asked what he really wanted to do in life, he immediately replied, "I'm doing it," and added that he would continue "until they catch on to me." For a while, Feiffer attended the Pratt Institute of Art in New York where, as he says, he learned "very little." "But," he confesses, "that was probably more my fault than theirs...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Confessions of a Cockeyed Artist | 5/12/1959 | See Source »

...chickie run." Jim doesn't see the point of the affair, but Buzzy reassures him. ("You gotta' do somethin', don't you?") Jim loses the race, but Buzzy loses a lot more when he can't get the door of his car open before it rolls over the cliff. Except for his loyal followers who decide to wreak revenge upon Jim, not too many are deeply disturbed by Buzzy's demise...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Rebel Without a Cause | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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