Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Bill Barclay's golf team, minus Bill Barclay, gets a jump on the rest of the invaders when it leaves for North Carolina by autos this afternoon. In a week the golfers will play three practice matches, starting its scheduled foursomes against the Tarheels of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Wednesday...
...other side of the fence is the Navy. The sailors play a rough and ready game with the accent on checking and power plays and last year's aggregation dropped a 15-1 game to them. A win over either Maryland or Navy would be an ostrich plume in Maddux...
Bluestone presented a selection from Richard Wright's "Native Son," in which Mr. Max attacks the cruelty of the white race which has forced Thomas into committing a murder. Sparer took excerpts from the Douglas speech in the Lincoln-Douglas Debate from Robert Sherwood's play "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." Lincoln's speech in the debate was given by MacNutt, who followed Sparer on the stage...
...score of the original down to a meager violin, oboe, 'cello, horn, and piano continue. Although it would doubtless have been difficult to use a full-size orchestra on the Sanders stage, surely more could have been done with the situation than this feeble quintet, which was forced to play against more than 170 voices. As it was, the instrumentalists present were far from perfect in tone or even pitch, and their weakness undermined the total effect...
...these three and the circle around them runs a pattern of restlessness and failure to find self, high searching morality and low lust. Miller has written a novel that is good because it isolates and preserves for time ahead the tenor and taste of a certain significant period's play on some significant people. It verges toward the second-rate when it tackles large issues and attempts a sweep of which it is apparently incapable...