Word: moss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Howard Moss has obviously written The Folding Green to be a witty and cogent commentary in the mannered, whimsical style that Poets' Theatre comedies frequently affect. It is thickly scattered throughout with jokes and clever remarks--many of which were greeted by the opening night audience with a justifiably damp silence...
...Moss has thought up a few nice epigrams ("Drosophila are so Mendelian"; "Promiscuity is the thief of time"), and various pleasant conceits. But he has also been fecund in pseudo-epigrams ("A doctor without a disease is like a poet without a passion--a mere strummer"), and little tepid fancies (an inefficient, effeminate angel who receives celestial rebukes from the sound-effects man whenever he says, "Oh, God.") Mr. Moss writes in a tone of unflagging, unconvincing elegance, less Wilde than woolly...
...characters keep dressing up in all sorts of funny costumes and superimposing various new identities on the one with which they started; why real characters keep getting mistaken for ghosts, and vice-versa; and why it is sometimes hard to determine where anybody is at. Evidently Mr. Moss has an eye toward being some sort of mellow Pirandello, but though he uses all the standard reality-illusion devices, it is hard to tell what he is trying to do with them. It is not enough for a playwright merely to discusss "reality and illusion"; he ought at least to appear...
...Gaed, Anton '61 C 6.4 212 Charlotte, N. C. 59 Pyle, Michael '61 C 6.3 217 Winnetka, Ill. 60 West, William '59 G 6.2 205 Shaker Hgts., Ohio 61 Davenport, Raleigh '60 G 5.9 182 Newport News, Va. 62 Balme, Benjamin '61 G 6.2 199 Portland, Ore. 64 Moss, Sanford '61 G 5.10 180 Morton, Pa. 65 Mallano, Robert '60 G 6.0 206 Los Angeles, Calif. 66 Lynch, Paul '59 G 6.2 210 Brookline, Mass. 67 Wellemeyer, John '59 G 5.11 182 Skillman, N. J. 68 Porvaznik, Paul '61 G 6.0 205 Duquesne, Pa. 69 Wall, Donald...
With only 23 per cent of the vote reported, Democrat Frank E. Moss has a slight lead in the Senatorial race against incumbent Arthur Watkins and former Governor J. Bracken...