Word: mara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tired Watching. This year, seeded No. 4, McKinley did not even lose a set. He got unexpected help from Germany's Wilhelm Bungert, who upset Australia's No. 1 -seeded Roy Emerson in a mara thon quarterfinal. McKinley routed Bungert, 6-2, 6-4, 8-6. Said the German: "I was tired. Tired from those five-set matches earlier. And tired from watching McKinley run." In the finals, Chuck came up against lanky Fred Stolle, a Sydney bank clerk who had beaten him four out of six times in previous matches. Trying to blow McKinley off the court...
...compelling. He does, however, fail to capture the essential coarseness of the hero. Irene Manning very effectively portrays the aging Vera Simpson, in her progress into and out of a hopeless love affair. Karen Thorsell as Linda makes the most of the least individual character in the play, and Mara Lynn brings a wonderful, brassy professionalism to the role of Fladys Bumps. Minor parts, especially Renee Taylor's Melba, are well done. Both the music and the choreography seem just right, although at times the orchestra overpowers the singers...
...must be explained as a success of sentiment, because there is not much to grip the imagination in the somewhat dimly drawn characters of Mara, a young village girl, and Bebo, a ig-year-old Communist and former resistance fighter. Bebo left the partisans with a big pistol in his pocket and a boy's pathetic notion that he could slay dragons with it. He swaggers about, beats up a Fascist priest, and finally shoots the young son of a militia sergeant. Bebo thinks himself a hero; he knows simply that his victim was a nonCommunist, therefore an enemy...
...rich man . . . It's like a corporation: the greatest stockholders have the greatest votes." In Alpaca, it all comes out like this: " 'Will you help me further this plan for just government? Will you do me the honor of working with me . . .?' 'Yes, Achala,' Mara promised." Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White replaced the myth of youth with some hard facts. Middle age begins at 20 and lasts until 80, he announced somberly in Boston. The dangerous years of this 60-year spread are not the last 20 but the first...