Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson's weak spot has been the epee, but they have only lost once to Yale in this event since Edo Marion has been coach...
...subjects for a humorous approach. "He was dead wrong," Behrman says, pointing out that Franz Werfel had told him the true story from which the play was taken at Max Reinhardt's Hollywood home. "Also present was the composer Arnold Schonberg; they were all refugees who had lost everything to the Nazis, but they all laughed themselves sick. The capacity to laugh is the strongest thing in people...
...cannot discount the work of Yale's head swimming coach at New Haven since 1918. He was also Director of Athletics there from 1946 to 1949, and head coach of four American Olympic swimming teams. Kiphuth's squads have a present streak of 181 consecutive dual meets, not having lost since the Army meet of 1945. In all, his teams have won 507 and lost a mere 12 dual contests...
...further suggested that the Soviets' real motives may lie elsewhere. "During the last Berlin crisis, in 1948-9," he commented, "the West lost China to the Communists; this time the Soviets may be attempting to divert us from the Middle East while they build up their position in Iraq...
...virtues as a showcase for the company, however, Six Characters is not an ideal choice. The unfinished story of the Six is a dreary bourgeois "tragedy," more or less Ibsenite in tone, revolving around a scene where a man's long-lost wife (Miss England) bursts in and stops him from fornicating with a prostitute, because the prostitute is his step-daughter. I am not giving anything away in revealing this, because the Stepfather (Mr. Reinhardt) and Stepdaughter (Miss Landey) spend a good deal of time standing around chewing the fat about this scene before they ever get to playing...