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Maybe Revolution is the mother country's revenge. Hugh Hudson memorialized Britain's play-fair pluckiness in Chariots of Fire, then suggested in Greystoke, that its weary civilization stifled man's best primal instincts. This time Hudson does not take sides. He hates 'em both. The Redcoats stagger across a battlefield like Monty Python twits; the colonists see defeat approaching and run like dogs. But this seems less cynical impartiality than a failure of craft. The film's central characters have virtually nothing to do with the winning or losing of the war. Working-class Boatsman Tom Dobb (Al Pacino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Losing Battle | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

This committee includes Arthur A. Ballantiue, Jr. '36, Thomas H. Bilodcau '37, Raymond Dennett '36, Robert Dunn '37, Milton G. Green '36, Benjamin H. Hallowell '36, Robert S. Play-fair '36, and White...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Scholarships, Employment Will Be Investigated by the Student Council | 10/17/1935 | See Source »

...Greene '38, E. W. James '38, T. P. Kolman '38, E. T. Ladd '38, W. P. Lester '38, E. Levens '38, R. S. Levy '38, E. W. Meisenhelder, 3rd '38, B. Michael GB, J. L. Morrison '38, A. M. Nittle '36, O. Paul '38, R. S. Play-fair '36, D. Rhodes '38, H. A. Robinson '38, I. Romanow '37, W. H. Shapley '38, R. W. Snyder '38, A. Steinberg '38, W. P. Swett '38, L. B. Wheildon '36, P. White...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 29 Men Accepted At Trials By University Orchestra | 9/28/1934 | See Source »

...Play-fair '36, captain of the Freshman Cross Country team, was only two seconds behind last year's captain. Pier, in the long race. These two runners and J. S. Hayes '33 completely out-distanced the rest of the field, their nearest competitor, C. F. Woodard '35, being more than a minute behind them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACKMEN STAGE FIRST TIMES TRIALS OF SEASON | 3/31/1933 | See Source »

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