Word: happenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wide open game, with long passes and runs, and more than likely a high score seems in the offing. Anything can happen in a Harvard-Yale football game, but with a fair share of the breaks, it looks like a Crimson Saturday evening...
...Happen Here opened last week at 21 theatres in 18 cities. One of Los Angeles' two performances and one of New York City's three were in Yiddish. In Seattle the play was presented by a Negro cast. Two versions in Italian were scheduled for Newark and San Francisco. Despite Mr. Lewis' original edict that not a line of his script must be changed, Denver was permitted to transfer the Vermont locale to Colorado and in Detroit the action was laid in a factory district. In Tampa, the play was given in Spanish with the action...
Critics found many a flaw last week in It Can't Happen Here as a piece of dramaturgy. Despite its faults, it is a serviceable and occasionally terrifying presentation of Sinclair Lewis' thesis that the rubber-truncheon and concentration-camp sort of Fascism is a creeping disease and not a sudden explosion. Called to a Manhattan stage for a speech after last week's first performance, Author Lewis appeared, looked at his watch, barked: "I've been making a speech since seven minutes to nine," and vanished into the wings...
...pretty well established fact that material is more likely to make the system than the system is to make the material. In other words of you don't have football players, of lads who can be taught to play football, no system will work. And if you happen to have a bunch of super-men, any system will work...
...balloon bearing the legend "It can't happen here," and raised shortly after the fifth touchdown, expressed the sentiments of many amazed Harvard fans who had sat through more than one gloomy rout in recent years...