Word: play
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moreover, this sturdy little play aspires above its station. Obviously affected by delusions of tragedy, Mr. Miller has outfitted his work with a one-man chorus named Alfieri, who takes a small part in the action (he is a waterfront lawyer), but spends most of his time making superfluous references to the passionate nature of the Mediterranean peoples and the inevitable doom of Eddie Carbone. This device imparts to the play an air of pretentiousness, which Joseph Plummer does not dissipate by playing Alfieri like the dear old professor of a very recondite subject...
...speedy Crimson line made many prolonged forays into Williams territory, but a mistake on offense or a sparkling Eph defensive play put an end to every threat. Hampered by inaccurate passing, the varsity's attack showed the same fault that has characterized it all season--the lack of a real scoring punch...
...other half of the issue contains a verse play, called A Wind of Light, by Jonathan Revere, a Dunster House senior. It describes two shallow, dissolute Italian youths who are transformed into passionate tragic characters in a play they are acting out on a hot summer afternoon. The dialogue, though rough in many places is done with some skill and the illusion of the character transformation is reasonably effective. The vast, pseudo-profound generalizations in the tragedy sequence are not always successful, and a number of Revere's phrases (the title, for instance) though pleasant sounding, and even suggestive, have...
...mouthed sort, allowed earlier this fall that his squad was "one of the best in years." This can only mean that the Ephs are loaded. Their halfback line, led by Ben Field and Jim Fox, returns intact from last season, and all the Ephmen are big, rough operatives who play a hard-running, straight-ahead type of game...
This handy division of labor permitted the Russians to play the two faced Janus. Their prominent role at the Festival allowed them to take credit for the existing fragments of "peace and friendship", while behind the closed door others could stoke the furnaces of power politics...