Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tolstoy once wrote, "All happy families resemble each other; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Not so, says Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane, a British play about a family which at curtain's fall is happy, or at least content, in its own very peculiar way. The plot, as summed up in the play's advertising, is this: "Sister wants to sleep with Mr. Sloane; Brother wants to sleep with Mr. Sloane; Mr. Sloane kicks Dada to death." Hardly the kind of situation which makes for happiness, in the natural order of things. But black comedy...
...black, and occasionally blue, content, Entertaining Mr. Sloane is an absorbing comedy. Joe Orton spoon feeds his audience shock and grotesquerie, he doesn't throw it in their face. He uses an acute comic talent to show how people lose themselves in petty, selfish, and deviate concerns. The playwright has taken the time he is serving at a leading London prison to construct a careful play which grows progressively grotesque as the characters perceive and accommodate each other's desires...
...scored when Cobb ate a ground ball, but Peters quelled the rally on a grounder to first baseman Joe O'- Donnell. HARVARD ab r h rbi Smith 5 0 0 0 Cobb 3 2 1 0 Hoot'n 4 1 2 0 Lord 2 1 1 1 Hall 4 0 2 2 K'gn's 4 1 1 0 O'D'll 4 0 2 0 H'ston 3 0 0 0 M'C'lsh 3 0 1 0 Peters 0 0 0 0 Totals...
Harvard baseball captain Joe O'Donnell was named player of the week in the Eastern "Intercollegiate Baseball League last week for his leading role in the Crimson victories over Pennsylvania and Cornell...
...Joe Tibbets added a 5 and 4 victory, and Frank Mahady scored 7 and 6. Joe Roberts and George Vary both registered 8 and 7 wins at the bottom of the ladder...