Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they will be facing their toughest opponent so far, and if they win big -- why, even B.C. isn't out of the question...
...secret that there's a lot of teaching that isn't up to the quality that we would like," Leaf said in a recent interview. "But no one has ever told anyone anything except that he's supposed to know a lot about his subject...
...takes about ten minutes of carpentry to put each tier in place. The time is used as a quasi-intermission: the play isn't really going on, but there are high-jinks on stage. A movie of rhinoceroses in motion was projected against a flat accompanied by a medley of Elvis Presley songs; another time animal cookies were distributed to the audience. Mine was a bit tart, but eating it, I confess, was the highest synaesthetic...
There is too much burlesquing by the women in the play, but as they do it well it isn't fair to carp. Denise Girouard as Mrs. Boef, wife of a rhinoceros, is the most skillful of the lot. She is a master of the tableau vivant, always finding the right arch of leg or arm to drag comedy out of stage direction. Sara Salisbury plays Daisy, the secretary in Berenger's office, and she looks like a secretary, which is some achievement in Cambridge. Miss Salisbury has the good sense not to overdo her girlishness and pucker-pout...
...Ireland from 1945 to 1959, whose pixyish personality and dandy dress suited him well for his ceremonial office, particularly on a two-week visit to the U.S. in 1959, when he blarneyed all the boyos and bussed all the colleens, saying to his wife "Look at this one, dear, isn't she grand?"; after a long illness; in Dublin...