Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During his "exile" in the U. S. (he returned to Paris two months ago), Elliot Paul wrote a novel, Concert Pitch, and spent much time studying U. S. labor. The result is The Stars and Stripes Forever. A strike novel laid in a one-man manufacturing town in Connecticut, it contains no Communist character, goes light on leftist propaganda. Conceit rather than the C.I.O. accounts for the fact that the villain, Tycoon Loring, finally gets the whole town down on him, including the high school football team. With its neat plot and smooth dialogue, The Stars and Stripes Forever...
Coach Stahl sent Captain Art Johns in to pitch against the Duke Dovlia at Durham; his strategy almost succeeded, the Crimson foreign the hard-hitting home team to the limit before losing...
Brackett started on the mound against Nave, since the Georgetown tilt was rained out. Curtiss relieved him in the third, and after a shaky start, settled down to pitch a good brand of ball...
With such implacable people Playwright Hellman has dealt implacably, exerting against them a moral pressure to match their own immoral strength. Both the Hubbards and their playwright-inquisitor work at a pitch too relentless for real life. But it is the special nature of the theatre to raise emotions to higher power, somewhat simplifying, somewhat exaggerating, but tremendously intensifying. Playwright Hellman makes her plot crouch, coil, dart like a snake; lets her big scenes turn boldly on melodrama. Melodrama has become a word to frighten nice-nelly playwrights with; but, beyond its own power to excite, it can stir...
...union." Last spring, the Presbyterian Church murmured its "yes," and commissions set about drawing up a marriage agreement (TIME, June 6). For purposes of discussion, an agreement was published last autumn. By last week, when a Presbyterian-Episcopal conference was held in Buffalo, the wooing had reached such a pitch that Editor Stewart MacMaster Robinson of The Presbyterian declared: "Ecclesiastical love-making must not make us forget the unsaved world...