Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Previously scheduled to make only one trip this year--that by train to Princeton--one of the largest bands in Harvard's history decided that sleeping in a bus is a small enough sacrifice to take the field before the Army Band and to play above Cayuga's Waters...
Coach Valpey himself supervised play from the sidelines in a T-shirt and slacks, even though visibility was so bad that observers huddled in the press-box could hardly see the field of play through the murk. Coach Valpey has a word for all this: "fire." It's a word that will be heard often on Soldiers Field this fall...
...various machinations of this Maxwell Anderson stage play are natural fodder for the generation of the quality called suspense, and Director John Huston has made the most of it. Yet Huston suspense has a unique moral overtone. At the same time people are chewing their nails wondering what will happen next, they are also wondering whether an essentially idealistic man can stay hopelessly pessimistic and inactive when he is brought face to face with the personification of evil. The peculiarity of it all is that Huston's moralizing does not impair a mote, mite, or job the entertainment value...
...Play for Bed and Board...
Reading period witnesses the appearance of the orgies, the time when Networkers successively play hours of Beethoven, Brahms, Gilbert, and Sullivan, hillbilly songs, and jazz until the drop exhausted on the eve of examination period...