Word: goat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...introduced as an untrustworthy, melancholy rummy-brilliant lawyer and all that, but essentially a tosspot. Bogarde flips his banister's wig over happily married Lucic, and from then on, both sides of the English Channel are awash in his nobility. Director Ralph Thomas leaps like a mountain goat from peak to peak: Lucie's love for Charles Darnay, the revolutionary mobs swarming in the streets of Paris, and finally Sydney Carton's self-sacrificing death to save Darnay. But inevitably the film must miss many of the deeper shadows between the peaks...
William Alfred, assistant professor of English and General Education, has stepped beyond his customary field of medieval studies to playwrighting. His first play, entitled "Hogan's Goat," will receive its premier performance in Sanders Theatre...
Alfred, who has a half-Irish background, drew the idea for his play from stories told him during his childhood. He hopes to have "Hogan's Goat" produced off-Broadway, and New York producers will attend the concert readings of the play. Jerome Kilty will produce the Sanders performance...
...Williamsport the Monterrey kids had to make some adjustments. They brought their own hot peppers with them, but had to give up the usual diet of beans, goat meat and tortillas for American fare. They were amazed at the plentiful supply of milk, often drank more at one sitting than their families back home could afford in a whole week. Little League doctors found them in fine health. Not one had a cavity in his teeth. None of the youngsters could speak English, but they got along famously with U.S. boys...
Final Innings. All evening the returns came in as the count progressed on whether the people of Los Angeles wanted a goat pasture called Chavez Ravine changed into a site for a big-league stadium (TIME, April 28)-and consequently, whether the legend L.A. on the Dodgers' caps was to become a permanent symbol or a passing memory. All evening the count was closer than the game (final score: Cincinnati 8, L.A. 3). Not until late the next afternoon was Dodger President Walter O'Malley satisfied that his team had won the referendum. The Dodgers themselves reacted...