Word: foil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next leap, the stranger becomes involved in a moralistic debate with the apartment denizens. He claims he always does what he likes; yet as the play develops, he emerges as the altruist responsible for the welfare of all living things. The squabbling and moody apartment dwellers serve as a foil to his Christianity. When through the (perhaps) jealousy, or pique, of one of them, the squirrel plunges to his death, the Christian exits to bury his prey, and the denizens resume their static gaze heavenward, half expecting to see a new squirrel take a tumble. If they experience a realization...
...Foil for the Lonely. Christopher Isherwood, who owns the most mellifluous name since Hiawatha, started All the Conspirators (New Directions; 255 pp.; $3) in 1926, when he was 21. It is a much better than fair first novel, although not a very robust one. It is really a school piece, full of ill-chewed borrowings from Joyce and Virginia Woolf. The hero is a sticky, artistic young man-a kind of underdone Dedalus-who rebels weakly against the smothering care of his mother. He gets some support from his friend, a medical student with the sour outlook but none...
...fondness for melodrama of an author still partly adolescent shows in All the Conspirators. Eleven years later, still moodily youthful but by then a seasoned novelist, Isherwood invented a foil for his loneliness-and created his best character-in the abundantly friendly Sally Bowles of Goodbye to Berlin...
...sabre and foil contests held Tuesday night, Pete Kane of Dunster took first place in foil and Funster Bob Bowditch won in sabre. Art Lemay of Kirkland was runner-up to Kane and Dudley's Honston Baker came in second in sabre...
...graduating captain Bill Trebilcock, who had a 10-5 record in Ivy competition, foil was probably the varsity's strongest division this season. Lefthander Phil Charat, Larry Johnson, and Alan Gardner were all valuable assets. Next year's captain Dave Johnson got better as the year wore on, scoring the only Crimson foil victory in the Yale match. The return of this season's regulars, except Trebilcock, and the addition of freshmen Pete Schossberger and Mahlon Wheeler will make foil tough again next year...