Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year's freshman team compiled a 15-6 record, winding up 5-1 in Ivy League play. The team, which extended the Yardlings' winning streak over the yale freshmen to seven games, sent about five men to this year's varsity squad...
...basis of experience, the varsity must be rated a definite favorite over the Eagles, but as Weiland pointed out last night, "They always seems to play their best game against us," a statement that is well borne out by numerous B.C. upsets in early season contests...
However, the most interesting contest of the season comes January 12, when the Russian Olympic team journeys to the Boston Garden to meet the Crimson sextet. The varsity will play under Olympic rules, which do not permit any body-checking, and the game itself could be a commentary on the superiority of international competition. "After all, they're the best team in the world," Weiland notes...
What The Folding Green lacks in wit it does not make up in cogency. In the middle of the middle act, a white-wigged actress comes before the curtain to say that the author told her to say that reality and illusion is the theme of his play. This explains why the characters keep dressing up in all sorts of funny costumes and superimposing various new identities on the one with which they started; why real characters keep getting mistaken for ghosts, and vice-versa; and why it is sometimes hard to determine where anybody is at. Evidently Mr. Moss...
...associates jump through all sorts of hoops in hopes of getting their hands on some of her money.) But Mr. Moss has little of interest to say about money, unless it be that money is very important to people, and that they talk about it a lot. Because the play's themes are announced so carefully, it is hard not to feel short-changed at the realization that The Folding Green makes no more meaningful a statement than the merest commercial laff-riot--especially since a laff-riot...