Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walk (by Micheál MacLiammóir; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers, in association with Brian Doherty) is the Dublin Gate Theater's third Broadway production and first wholly inside job. Written by one of the Gate's two founders and star performers, the play isn't really much good but it is often exceedingly pleasant. Half fantasy and half satire, in its dawdling as well as its dreaming it is altogether Irish...
...beer isn't everything and before eight the O.G. wears tablecloths and sports menus and silverware. Lunch and dinner are on the card, as well as a collegiate sandwich assortment, named after Radcliffe, M.I.T. and other nearby schools. Although the tagging is arbitrary, it may not seem so to M.I.T. students who dislike cole slaw, for cole slaw bulks large in the Tech sandwich. It sells well, nevertheless, and all together the O.G. dispenses more food than drink and considers itself more a dining room than an ivy-covered beer hall. But to the sentimental or the thirsty...
...That day isn't here yet-but the plans are being laid for it. When the day comes, colleges will have to be a lot bigger, or there will have to be a lot more colleges. Last week California and New York, the two states with the biggest educational migraines, chose the lesser evil. The trick is, they agreed, to make little ones out of big ones...
...story Mr. Roberts isn't much-and isn't meant to be. It's as a human picture that it triumphs-a human picture in which frustration lives on delightful if not always convincing terms with farce. Tempers get sharper as everything else on the AK 601 gets duller. Denied the simpler masculine pleasures, guys cook up the most elaborate schoolboy pranks; the brinier the life, the earthier the lingo...
...Stalin's followers, that double-bookkeeping morality which permits them to engage in the most immoral activity precisely because they are sincerely convinced that they work in behalf of a liberating cause. "A communist spy is particularly dangerous ... not because he's a scoundrel but because he isn...