Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nabokov's ultimate and realistic irony is to make the executioner, who is at first passed off as just another fellow prisoner, into a garrulous, sentimental clown. As the axman prattles on about being not some "unfamiliar terrible somebody, but a tender friend," Author Nabokov develops the memorable conceit that the rite of execution is both a public festival and a black sacrament, in which victim and executioner are as intimately linked as bride and groom...
Finally, at Calais, and later off Gravelines to the north, the Spaniards ran out of luck, and more precisely, out of cannon balls. Beaten, although for the most part still seaworthy, Medina Sidonia's fleet had no choice but to make the long run home, around Scotland and Ireland. Many ships broke up in violent squalls or split open on rocks along the Irish coast, and the natives grimly knocked out some Spaniards' brains as the men lay exhausted on the beaches. Few lived, despite legend, says Mattingly, to seed the Celts with dark skins and black eyes...
Much Ado About Nothing. Delightful subplotters John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton make the play's dull main plot well worth sitting through...
Seeking to secure "enough directors with the training necessary to make good use of the Loeb Drama Center," the Harvard Dramatic Club and Steven Aaron '57 have instituted a new workshop in directing, Joel F. Henning '61, President of the HDC, announced last night...
...Yardling offense stalled during the entire first half, failing to make a first down. Its defense permitted backs Bill King and Ernest Torres to make several substantial gains...