Word: mori
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paraphrasing Horace: "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori...
...idea, as Dylan Thomas and Charles Laughton, alone and with supporting actors, have proved and proved again. Samuel Beckett's All That Fall, the most important work on the Poet's bill, is avowedly a radio play. David Campton's two curtain-raisers, A Smell of Burning and Memento Mori, also depend almost entirely upon dialogue and sound effects. The faults of the three lie not in their form but in their functioning: though competently made and well staged and acted, their impact is weak...
Campton's A Smell of Burning and Memento Mori diverge from realism to comic fantasy. They are short and slight in form, and amiably gruesome in tone. Both are clever jobs, but each is composed of one joke, not a very funny joke at that, spun out far too thinly...
...credited to them that the performances are almost uniformly good. DeFrench and Greely Curtis are convincingly miserable in All That Fall, and William Driver and Hope Christopoulos do right by Cockney accents in A Smell of Burning. Stanley Jay gives the best performance of the evening in Momento Mori, playing an old man with a fine stooped shrillness...
...race for two-year-olds at championship distance was a project launched by Garden State's President Eugene Mori in 1953. It would appeal to both horse breeders and horseplayers, he reasoned, as a way of separating the sprinters from the stayers. It would also give a line on the potential ability of the following season's three-year-olds. Liberally backed by owners (who were required to shell out more than $2,000 apiece in nominating, eligibility, entry and starting fees) and underwritten for $100,000 by the Garden State Racing Association, the race overnight became...