Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading the race for the end positions. The first of these is sure of holding down one wing, while Harding and Ogden, with the former having the edge, will fight it out for the other end berth. Douglas, regular wingman before his injury, will be in condition to play, but his layoff will relegate him to a reserve role. B. Ticknor will be at center. Captain Barrett and W. Ticknor will undoubtedly start, but whether they will be assigned tackle or guard posts in an unanswered question...
...long workout yesterday opened with a scrimmage between teams A and B. Play was ragged for the most part and no scoring was allowed. H. R. Hardwick '15, former Harvard and All-American end, then gave the squad a talk on tackling and blocking. The discontent of the coaches with this department of play was revealed by the fact that all men were next sent through a still 30-minute session tackling the dummies. Individual work with the various coaches was next on the program. The teams ran through signals until after darkness had settled to conclude the gruelling practice
...stiff scrimmage yesterday afternoon. Lateral and forward passes have come in for their share of attention and no little success attended their use. An adequate defense against aerials has been the main weakness of the 1933 combination so far, and considerable attention will be given this department of play...
...Theater Guild's production of "Porgy" returns to the Hollis, after a year, with no loss in its striking effectiveness. It is a folk play, but without the easy movement of plot which that expression might imply; local color, to be sure, is there, but woven with skill into the fabric of a tremendously swiftmoving drama; and, moreover, the folk atmosphere is not mere adornment, but has a vital part in the development of the plot. A red-coated orphanage band leading the inhabitants of Catfish Row on a picnic; a quack lawyer in a top hat, selling Porgy...
Music is brilliantly employed in "Porgy." Not only are there the organized funeral chants, and, at the other end of the scale, the futuristic rhythms of the band, but there is Porgy's sudden turn from prose recitation into a chant as he speaks early in the play, and Serena's prayer for the delirious Bess to Jesus, to "send the devil out of her like you used to do," with the rising refrain of "time and time again!" in which the others gradually join...