Word: lating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When S. N. Behrman was an undergraduate at Harvard, he and the late Pulitzer Prize playwright Sidney Howard were members of George Pierce Baker's "47 Workshop." The big goal for young dramatists at that time was the Castle Square Prize, offered by a local Boston theatre, and both Behrman and Howard submitted plays. Neither was successful, however, with the award going to another Workshop member...
Behrman's favorite modern playwright is the late Frenchman Jean Giraudoux; Giraudoux's characters, he says, are "human beings of acute sensibility; they are not thugs or sadists, but suffering, cultured people." He does not find much value in the angry works of John Osborne or in the experimental theatre of Samuel Beckett. "Osborne is an arresting writer; he makes you listen to him, but his characters are monsters and have no awareness that they are monsters...
WASHINGTON, March 4--America's Pioneer IV shot past the moon late today and headed for a solar orbit scientists say will last as long as the universe does...
...Albie Booth legend began one fall Saturday in 1920, Booth's sophomore year, when Yale was facing a powerful Army squad, led by All-American Chris Cagle. With the Elish trailing 13 to 0 late in the second period, Booth entered the game. Even now, 30 years later, they still talk about the events of the next 30-odd minutes...
...Then, late in the fourth period, Yale blocked a Wood punt and recovered on the Crimson 45. Booth gained five yards, and on the next play he completed a pass deep in Harvard territory. After three running attempts left the Bulldogs short of a score, Both dropped back to the 12 and split the uprights with the three-point kick that ruined the Crimson's spotless record...