Word: play
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smooth out weaknesses and to fill a gap at first base, Samborski now has a regular quartet of players, all from Massachusetts. The key man in the infield is Mike Drummey, of North Andover, a peppy little player now settled at second base. His partner in the double-play combination-and it's a good one--is Dave Morse. A former Vermont Academy athlete from Hingham, Morse will start at shortstop today...
Williams, pitcher-outfielder from Oklahoma City, will play in left, except when he takes his turn on the mound. Switch-batter Williams is a long-ball hitter and will bat cleanup. Also very strong at the plate is Drummey, left-handed lead off man, who hits to all fields. Morse and Bernstein, who bats from the left side, are also expected to compile high averages this spring...
...does not take much investigation to see that such a student is rare; and that irresponsibility is widespread. It takes the form of the play director who walks out on the play in the middle, the fund drive chairman who forgets to send out checks to charities. What does it matter what I do? he bitterly asks; no one cares, anyway...
...particular dramatic genius lies in verbal manipulation, and the play's verse, ornate and intensive in itself, abounds with witty repartee and with imagery sustained throughout and amplified. The characters, each in his own way, fall in love with metaphor and this richness of language displeases only when it verges on words for words' sake. The setting in a God-conscious world gives an air of profundity to the word--a feeling intensified by the language--but an air not completely founded. Mendip's hell and Alizon's heaven and Jennet's "essential fact" are all modified...
There remains only Old Skipps, the rag and bones man who rises drunkly from the would-be dead to bring down the house with laughter and send the lovers home. And Barry Levin is a convincing drunk. And the play is convincingly optimistic...