Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nick's is made up of former New England college hockey stars, with Princeton. Yale, and Middlebury alumni forming the bulk of the squad...
Last season the Crimson had no trouble overcoming St. Nick's by a score of 5 to 2; Harvard easily controlled the game, outshooting the visitors 36-16. Ex-Princeton goalie Barry Van Gerbig was spectacular for St. Nick's, turning away 36 Crimson drives. He will perform the goaltending chores again tonight...
...Crimson's first game is with the St. Nicholas Hockey Club of New York on Dec. 1, and St. Nick's is hungry for victory after losing to Harvard two years straight. The season's toughest games will again be with Clarkson, St. Lawrence, and Colorado College...
After they play "Humiliate the Host," George proposes other games, like "Get the Guests." Nick gets Martha. George tries to goad Honey into listening to the lewd off-stage cavortings of their spouses, but she is locked in some private bomb shelter of her sodden fearful mind, and will not hear. At this point, the play achieves a suffocating vision of evil that would take a second Flood to cleanse. Even sin is sterile. Martha returns with a crestfallen Nick and announces mock-grandiosely: "I am the earth-mother, and you're all flops...
...cast is shatteringly good. Uta Hagen fills Martha with pantherish ferocity and untamed vulgarity. In a skillfully modulated performance, Arthur Hill as George limns a memorable portrait of the sadist as A.B., M.A., Ph.D. George Grizzard makes Nick a moral chameleon with all the courage of his connections, and when Nature passed out brains, Melinda Dillon's Honey was given cotton candy. The charged intensity that Director Alan Schneider brings to an evening full of talk is based on one penetrating insight-talk can kill, and murder is rarely a bore...