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...Fourteen of sixteen evenly-matched and able candidates will form the two backfield units. John Damis, Hywel Rees, and Rowe are among the veteran backs working out this spring. Jack Downing is nursing a severe knee injury and may miss the entire season. Buzz Miller and Rick Rice are two of the many outstanding newcomers who will probably play extensively this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/23/1961 | See Source »

Half the play is devoted to Grusha, and Grusha winds up as half a character. When Director John Hancock was analyzing her during the Loeb production, he charted fourteen "good" traits, which read like the Boy Scout Oath, and one fault (she lost he temper readily). Brecht's failure to elevate Grusha above generic goodness is particularly telling since he conceived the play in order to write a special part for Luisa Rainer, an expatriate German actress. His failure exemplifies the weakness invariably cited by the Communist critics: Brecht could create noble agitators and good proletarians, but never a flesh...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: Bertolt Brecht's Communist Writings: The Poetry and Politics of Disillusion | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...Tiger goalie, who is also the team captain, courageously climbed into his pads last week despite a broken finger, and shut out Yale for thirty minutes before bowing, 4 to 2, on a goal with fourteen seconds left. His other outstanding feats have included blocking 38 of 42 shots two years ago at Watson Rink, when Princeton managed...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Sextet May Clinch Ivy Title Tonight Against Princeton in Last Home Game | 2/28/1961 | See Source »

...past fourteen years an informal committee of about a dozen alumni have devoted themselves to the not altogther comfortable task of selecting an "outstanding contribution to Harvard's undergraduate publications." "Our intention," said one of the group recently, "is to pick some piece each year that is most worthy of recognition--we try to avoid talking about 'best pieces.' What we've established in effect is a collegiate Pulitzer Prize." Most of the committee's members were on the board of the 1943 Harvard Album--then the official title of the Harvard Yearbook. Since 1948, they have been legally constituted...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Dana Reed Prize Seeks To Select Outstanding Undergraduate Writing | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...subconscious, sometimes omniscient; time shifts from the present to the future to the prehistoric past in intricate patterns. (According to the dust jacket, Mr. Queensly is already at work on his second book--A Key to The Section Man. It will include a glossary of terms from the fourteen languages which Mr. Queensly employs...

Author: By Allan Katz, | Title: The Section Man | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

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