Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successor, Pat Graham, continued these generous policies, walking Stephenson and giving up a run-scoring hit to Diehi after Gilmor had sacrificed. Bart Jealous, the next Navy excuse for a pitcher, served a home run ball to Stephenson in the eighth...
...Anthony Graham-White adapted a Marek Hlasko story full of characters and atmosphere. Agnieszka, a young woman relatively untouched by the war, passes an existence surrounded by hulks who are psychologically still under the Nazi rule. Her parents are aging and broken; her lover lost all but his physical drives in the concentration camps. One of her brothers still tries to live by Darwinian prison morality, while the other drowns his self-pity in vodka. Throughout their actions parade chorus-like groups of foul-mouthed and drunken toughs, the spawn of occupation...
...script has great possibilities as a sketch, a portrait of a country undergoing a reconstruction of its morality. To be entertaining, however, such a vignette must be convincing, and Eighth Day of the Week simply does not convince. The principal blame for this failure must fall upon the director Graham-White, who should probably stick to his adapting. I have seldom seen so many embarrassed-looking people on a stage, wondering where to stand, and, after they find a place, what to do with themselves. A little drill on delivery could also have helped...
...Graham-White's set with a Klee backdrop was interesting and the lighting by Ming (of Mongo, no doubt) had some imaginative touches. It is a pity that a little more attention was not paid to the cast, particularly the supporting actors and the toughs, for without it, the play was not poignant and affecting, as intended, but off-color and downright silly...
...John A. Graham, secretary of the Mountaineering Club and leader of the walkers, estimated that the hike would take between 14 and 18 hours, but added that it might last much longer...