Word: playfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After dribbling through most of the Crimson defense, Maierhoffer evened the count early in the second period. On the scoring play, Lanny Keyes, the varsity's captain and fullback, seemed to reinjure his heavily taped right leg. Operating at considerably less than top efficiency, he stayed in the game and was again the one essential man in the Crimson's defensive backfield...
...third period, the Big Red offense disappeared, while the varsity got off several good shots. Only the alert play of Cornell's Scotty Holmes in the goal staved off disaster. As the fourth quarter wore on, however, it seemed that the Crimson's domination of play might not be enough to defeat the exhausted...
...Must Die begins innocently, even happily. It is a day of triumph for a small Greek community. Their local oppressor, the Turkish Agha, has benevolently granted his Christian subjects permission to engage in their religion; he has allowed them to stage their passion play. But he, in his infidelity, and the town, in its belief, do not realize that more than a church festival is at stake. Able to cope with the reality of Turkish conquest, they are not really able to cope with belief...
...emphasis of He Who Must Die is on the "Must": the inevitable fate of believing. As members of the excited village are singled out to play the Passion, they alone grasp the responsibility of their roles. Judas draws back and cries out against his fate. What the newly chosen disciple John can not yet articulate is already implicit: another Christ is to be crucified. Belief, believed in, must...
Arthur L. Kopit '59 has been awarded First Prize in the Adams House Play-writing Competition. His original play, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, will open in the House next February...