Word: parred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Death of Ahasuerus, by Par Lagerkvist. The Wandering Jew as a symbol of salvation by unfaith-by a Nobel Prize-winning novelist who once described himself as "a believer without a belief...
...pocket-sized, experimental Viennese theater. It was written in 1941, but has rarely been performed (a literarily distinguished cast headed by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir once gave it a formal reading under Albert Camus' direction in Paris). Its title, Le Désir Attrapé par la Queue, comes out Wie man Wünsche beim Schwanz packt in German, which more or less means "How to Catch a Wish by the Tail." Described as a surrealistic carnival revue, Artist Picasso's play catches little else. Performed by twelve young actors, it is a disheveled...
This is the apocryphal legend of Ahasuerus. the Wandering Jew condemned by Christ to homeless immortality. If Ahasuerus had not been invented by some unknown storyteller of the Middle Ages, it seems likely that Swedish Author Par Lagerkvist would have reinvented him to embody the mystical dialectic of his own devout skepticism. As a younger man. Lagerkvist-now 70-wrote of himself that he was "a believer without a belief, a religious atheist." Today, after half a century of novels, plays, stories and poems that earned him the Nobel Prize in 1951, Lagerkvist is still obsessed with God, still...
...Hennessey of Holy Cross is a threat to the varsity's control of the field events. With Beckwith and Spitsberg below par, he could take the high jump, and he figures strongly in the broad jump as well. He can also sprint, as anyone who saw the 1960 Holy Cross football game will tell...
G.P.s as Clerks. The major complaint of doctors comes from G.P.s. They say they are overworked and underpaid. Their average of $6,800 a year is close to par for all British professional men (generally underpaid by U.S. standards), but is only about half what the specialists make. Worst of all, for general practitioners, is their feeling that they are being reduced to the status of medical clerks. Says a Yorkshireman: "The G.P.'s job is to be a sorter and referrer...