Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again Lavalle who bore the brunt as the Eagles dominated play early in the second stanza, and the advantage shifted back and forth as each team drew successive penalties. A speedy B.C. defense broke up the Crimson attacks until Wally Sears took a sideline pass from Davy Key at 15:03 and blasted it through Bernie Burke...
...same combination almost pulled off an identical play 20 seconds later, but had to call off the attack when Al Key drew a penalty...
...tempo of play increased as Dave Key threatened twice, but then the Eagles got a free shot when Wally Sears drew one of Harvards six penalties while breaking up a play. Defenseman "Butch" Songin teed off at the goal, but Lavalle nonchalantly caught it and tossed it aside...
Socrates is the name of the protagonist here, and Athens (California) is his home town; but these are the only classical touches in an otherwise humdrum production. This probe into the lusty bustle of Washington confusion is constructed along lines so directly opposite to plays dealing with the other Athens that all references to Greece and Grecian society appear dragged in by quotation marks and seem completely out of context. Revolving around a yearling Congressman who identifies himself with his namesake, the play attempts to inject an Old World perspective into the hurly-burly of politics; but long before...
While the Athens Congressman (Anthony Quinn) is acting the part of his namesake, he is also pulling for a United States of the World, an idea that appears to be the prime mover of the play, as well as the Greatest Idea Ever to Hit Congress. Potentially capable of turning the story into a provocative speculation on the shortcomings of UN, the idea falls prey to the same double-breasted double talk that plagues the Secretes business. Ideas give way to fists as the actors apparently fire of aiming empty words at empty seas and resort to more satisfying exertions...