Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lesson, a mad professor harangues and finally kills an odd, 17-year-old student (played as winningly by Joan Plowright as she plays the 94-year-old wife in The Chairs). The play perhaps symbolizes how pedantry destroys individuality, but like so much anti-academic satire, runs to academic jokes. Ionesco's seems an agreeable but thin talent, with a kind of philosophic-puppet show appeal...
Down on the West Virginia bench, Coach Fred Schaus crunched a program in his country-ham-sized hands and grimly watched his lanky, burr-headed Mountaineers put the ball in play. Around him, Philadelphia's Palestra was rocking with astonished delight. With a 75-10-72 lead, the local boys from Villanova were just 30 seconds away from upsetting undefeated West Virginia, the nation's first-ranked team...
Fred Schaus knows all about hard, high-pressure basketball; he used to play it himself. As a teenager, he was good enough to make the wartime Great Lakes Naval Training Station team, later played so well for West Virginia that the professional Fort Wayne Pistons tapped him after his junior year. Schaus turned pro, managed to get his B.S. (major: physical education) before going off to play with the Pistons for four years, three as captain. In 1954, when West Virginia Basketball Coach Robert N. ("Red") Brown moved up to athletic director, Schaus was his logical successor...
...kangaroos on high school basketball courts, now sets out night after night over the winding West Virginia roads in his 1957 Chevrolet to search for talent at high school games. Ohio-born Coach Schaus uses a recruiting argument that seems to work: he went out of his state to play ball, he explains, and now is almost a stranger back home. The moral: stay home and stay known...
...feared a close match. Williams had earlier beaten Army, one of the strongest teams in the East. But despite the fact that the team had eaten nothing from seven in the morning until the time of the match, and had made the long rough trip to play on the alien courts, it maintained its undefeated string...