Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe volunteers will be tours of the University, a track meet, boat rides on the Charles, a talent show and movies in New Lecture Hall, and swimming at the I.A.B. for boys. For the first time, girls will not have special activities and must tag along with the boys, except in swimming, of course...
...losers, it was an excellent performance even in defeat. The varsity was playing against a Princeton quintet that has been playing together for three years, a team composed entirely of seniors except for Jim Brangan. That they came so close to upsetting the Tiger applecart is a tribute to the varsity's courage, hustle, and determination
...charge, sent a stream of X rays into the cancerous portion of Dulles' abdomen for a full minute. Because Dulles was not nauseated, the doctors rated the treatment "well tolerated," agreed that if he could stand it, he would get up to five minutes' radiation every day except Sunday for the next three to four weeks...
...freshness and dancing vigor of the words is Playboy's only great distinction, except perhaps for a quality of tough-spirited, oddly joyous compassion--which amounts largely to the same thing. The plotting is tenuous, and the characters while vivid and attractive do not take up permanent residence in the mind, as great comic characters do. The cast of the present revival is not much help. But the play has lived fifty years on its dancing words alone, and it is alive and lovely still...
...Patelin is an ancient and anonymous French piece beloved of high school French teachers, who are not in all respects exactly like the rest of us. The complicated plot concerns a disreputable lawyer who cheats others and who is himself cheated, and never would intrigue have been less intriguing, except for an excellent actor by the name of John Casey. Mr. Casey sweats not, neither does he strain. He plays the shifty Patelin as one of those people who, when they are not leaning against something, contrive somehow to appear to be leaning against themselves; relaxed, charming, and funny. William...