Word: plays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are pitfalls. The newspaper can easily become a propaganda tool, tailoring facts to its own ends or giving play to only one ideology. This only leads in the end to a struggle based on misconception. Thus, the newspaper becomes counter-revolutionary, since only awareness of political reality will bring about revolution...
William Alfred, professor of English and author of the play Hogan's Goat, said yesterday that Seltzer's departure will be"a very terrible loss to all of us," but expressed confidence that courses such as Hum 105 would not die here because of the "growing and real interest" in theatre at Harvard...
...parties, J.R. and his pals drink vino, play with revolvers and have a good time with "the broads." While the others amuse themselves by talking tough and riding uptown to visit the whores, J.R. shyly courts his girl on rooftops and ferries. But he cannot bring himself to violate his strict Catholic heritage by sleeping with her. When she confides to him that she was once raped, he rejects her and returns to life with his cronies on the street...
...drive straight. They wreck cars, argue with each other, assault fat ladies on the Turin buses and infuriate the Mafia by treading on its turf. Throughout, Charlie's eyes remain at half-mast; his lassitude finally lulls the crooks, the polizia-and the audience. Caine and Coward play a splendid game of verbal tennis, but by the final reel the laughs are lost in an anthology of dull and deafening car chases...
Migraine and Piety. To contemporaries-and to later observers, Richelieu himself was equally hard to comprehend. A crossbreed of the middle-class and the impoverished country gentry, he had social ambitions and possessed extraordinary charm. Yet he was without humor. He could play the guitar. He kept 14 cats. He suffered the torments of migraine, piles and piety-O'Connell at least grants him piety, though he often has been considered a great hypocrite. He was certainly a ruthless schemer all his life. After receiving a bishopric through family connections, at the age of 21, he used his clerical...