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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Living concerns the escapades of two American expatriates who sleep in or about Paris and London. One, a bastard named only Wyeth, moves from bed to bed, uncaring and undiscriminating, seeking only to assuage a deep-down itch. His friend, Harry Steiner, is escaping from his middle-class Bronx past, from the squares back home, from his own terrible insecurity. They dig the easy life, the life of least resistance, the life of escape via jazz, junk, drink...

Author: By Edmund B. Games, | Title: Back to Beatland Again: A Study in Moral Decay | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

...Elis have also had an on-and-off season. Hampered by injuries, the team looked good in early season games, but mediocre in its past few contests...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Lacrosse Team to Play Eli Squad, Try for First Ivy League Victory | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

Both squads have suffered decisive defeats to Princeton in the past two weeks. The Tigers trounced the varsity 20 to 3 at Princeton two weeks ago, turning every Crimson mistake into a goal. Last Saturday, they topped Yale 14 to 9 despite 14 penalties called on Tiger stickmen...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Lacrosse Team to Play Eli Squad, Try for First Ivy League Victory | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

Several executives of the club offered suggestions as to who mailed the two pleas. "The cards might have been sent by former HYRC members who are still interested in our activities," commented Charles W. Long '62, operations director. "This has happened in past years...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Anonymous Cards Urge HYRC To Disown Ex-President Peterson | 5/14/1959 | See Source »

...defect inherent in Brecht's attempt to simplify life to the point where it can be described in his almost-allegorical terms. His characters are often lifeless stick-figures whose only identity is a label, and his political and social pronouncements are over-stated, over-emphasized, over-dramatized past the point of exasperation...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Puntila | 5/14/1959 | See Source »

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