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...narrator, who becomes Zorba's boss and foil, is a 35-year-old scholar, tired, bookworm-eaten, a 20th century Hamlet. Sensing that he ought to get away from his study for a while, he eases off on his definitive life of Buddha and tries to run a lignite mine. Zorba, the would-be cook, becomes his chief engineer. And through Zorba, the scholar learns to see the world fresh each...
While rehearsing a dueling scene last night for the forthcoming H.D.C. production of Othello, Leo Rosenberg '56 was struck in the eye with a foil...
...passive, "a camera, with shutter open." As a character in a play, however, the same Isherwood is only static, a figure hovering, observing, but lacking any depth. Van Druten tries half-heartedly to personalize the character by picturing him as a hypochondriac, but his Isherwood remains only a foil for the other characters, a drab intermediary between the audience and the real principals of the action...
...foil, Walton Rawls won three bouts and Jan Jertson and John Hamel each took three...
Today's action includes team competition in both saber and foil events and individual trophy battles...