Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voyages abound in Waugh; indeed, he has launched more ships of fools than any other modern writer. There is also much seasickness that often resem bles a queasiness with the world itself. In the Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957) a middle-aged writer suffers paranoid hallucinations while cruising to Ceylon. Voices of passengers plotting murder and humiliation filter into his ears from parts of the ship. The author acknowledged that he too suffered hallucinatory episodes, and Pinfold's curmudgeonly character and opinions are essentially...
...identical records but New York won the spot on total regular season goals, 246-244. 18. Pierre Larouche, Pittsburgh Penguins, 20 years, 5 months. 19. 50 penalties. Islanders vs. Rangers, Zebra Ron Wicks. 20. Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton Oilers, 17 years old. 21. Boom-Boom Geoffreon, Denis Potvin and Gilbert Perreault. 22. The Birmingham Bulls. 23. Harry Howell of the New York Rangers in 1967. 24. Darryl Sittler. 25. Pat Hickey of New York and Danny Gare of Buffalo. 26. Once, as coach of the Islanders in 1973-4. 27. 8, for the Philadelphia Blazers. 28. The Minnesota Fighting Saints...
...three-day growth of brownish shag, and Thog, who is a good deal bigger and still growing, lend chaos to the goings-on but don't say much. Other apparitions, such as the 7-ft. carrot with whom Gilda Radner of Saturday Night Live sang a duet from Gilbert and Sullivan, fit messily into miscellaneous...
Undergraduate productions outside of the University Theater are much like Harvard's: residential productions in dining halls and converted squash courts, a Gilbert and Sullivan Society, a musical here and there. Undergraduates also organized the Children's Theater Company several years ago, which tours New Haven schools...
...Brustein fails to realize that there will be many losers. The House drama societies and college-wide amateur companies such as the Gilbert and Sullivan Players will have difficulty using the Loeb technical facilities. More significantly, all those students who want to do theater but who reject the excesses of theatrical pre-professionalism may be frozen out of Loeb opportunities...