Word: loving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, the varsity must improve considerably before attaining such heights. Coach Harvey Love has experimented extensively this spring and predicts further changes before the opening regatta with Syracuse, B. U., and M.I.T. next Saturday...
...particular dramatic genius lies in verbal manipulation, and the play's verse, ornate and intensive in itself, abounds with witty repartee and with imagery sustained throughout and amplified. The characters, each in his own way, fall in love with metaphor and this richness of language displeases only when it verges on words for words' sake. The setting in a God-conscious world gives an air of profundity to the word--a feeling intensified by the language--but an air not completely founded. Mendip's hell and Alizon's heaven and Jennet's "essential fact" are all modified...
...their systems. The Chaplain, for all his awkwardness, comes closest to being a true philosopher but even he fails. We have a set of characters, almost all intrinsically humorous, brought together, contradicting each other and themselves, alive in a world where everything seems accepted and nothing abnormal, and only love somes...
...there is competition. Marguerite Tarrant's witch also draws attention for a beauty of speech and splendor of costume. She is fascinating in her fear of death, and radiant in the night when "Nothing is what it seems to be." Despite the "insect life" surrounding them, the young love, and do so with conviction...
Alizon (Elizabeth Commager) portrays loveable and loving innocence with ingratiating charm. She casts a golden glow over the company, and knows how to be still and still radiant. But her lover, Richard (Richard Watson), fails to hold up his end as the youthful son of the parish poor box. For this reason their third act love scene is somewhat less than effective...