Word: pelion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Local gunsters, possessing only inferior bore .22 calibre rifles were inclined to view the invitation of the Yale potshotters with alarm. "It's bad enough in the open trolleys down there with the pigeons flying around." said one, "but lead pellets might be piling Pelion on Ossa...
...dangerous business to pile Pelion on Ossa in the field of critical praise, but it is a risk which must be taken in any appraisal of the Veterans Theater Workshop's production of "Saint Joan." Last night's performance involved some of the finest acting and most superb staging over seen on the Sanders stage, and very probably anywhere in the vicinity of Harvard Square. Faced with enormous problems at every turn of one of Shaw's most ambitious scripts, the company created a masterpiece which carried the audience away and must have astounded even its most ardent backers...
Till the Clouds Roll By (M-G-M), a glamorized biography of the late Jerome Kern, piles Ossa on Pelion, Mt. Everest on top of that, and garnishes with a couple of dozen minor ranges. It is not exactly strong on story. The only clouds in Composer Kern's life-Broadway's onetime preference for English tunes, and Kern's avuncular concern over his arranger's problem daughter-seem to have been no bigger than a man's hand, and just about as unusual. But for those who like popular music and attractive entertainers...
...field have been offered this fall: one on the local color movement and the other on American fiction since 1890. Both are specialized in the extreme and neither is concerned with the central focus of American literature, the middle span of the nineteenth century. And to pile Ossa on Pelion, the course on American fiction since 1890 conflicts in examination group with professor Merk's History of the Westward Movement--by all odds the outstanding American history course offered in the College...
...keeping-burlesque in barracks required a musicomedy plot too complicated to explain and too silly to bother about, Lindsay & Crouse never stopped to worry. They tossed in gags-their own, burlesque's, the Army's-by the carload. They waded waist-high in corn. They piled Pelion on Ossa, and Minsky on the War Department. They plundered burlesque for all it was worth-strip teases and straight men, the "elephants" and the "grind"-and then brazenly parodied...