Word: poe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here and there, though, there were college men who developed a taste for the game. Most of the time they were paid off in black eyes and broken heads-plus whatever a teammate could pick up by passing the hat. But they played on. Princeton's Arthur Poe and Yale's "Pudge" Heffelfinger turned out in Pittsburgh around the turn of the century. In 1902 a young man named Connie Mack claimed the "Championship of the U.S." for his Philadelphia Athletics after risking the good left arm of his prize pitcher, Rube Waddell, in the Athletics' football...
...operatic spectacle, and in much the same 19th century style. It is a Dream that uses, as did a Kean or a Beerbohm Tree, Mendelssohn's enchantingly equivalent score; a Dream employing the classic patterns of romantic ballets; a Dream mounted with lush, moonlit décor evoking Poe's world rather than Shakespeare...
...have it knocked out by the courts. Nevertheless, in Oklahoma City, the city council recently passed an ordinance banning crime and horror comics. Some council members opposed the ordinance on the ground that the wording was so vague it could be used to ban the writings of Edgar Allan Poe or Arthur Conan Doyle. In Houston, spurred by Page One editorials in Jesse Jones's Chronicle, the city council also passed an ordinance similar to Oklahoma City...
Although Now for Nordine is only a few weeks old, Nordine himself is no stranger to experimental television. For more than a year he has been frightening and delighting Chicago audiences with eerie readings of classic horror tales such as Poe's Pit and the Pendulum, Lovecraft's Rats in the Walls. He calls this show Faces in the Window, plays weird music as he reads and scares his listeners with a bagful of simple but effective tricks. For a story where a man is hanged, he had the camera turn slowly back and forth to suggest...
Hyman Bloom is as poetic as Koerner is deliberately prosaic; he seems to echo the horror-logged, death-haunted work of Edgar Allan Poe. Bloom's Slaughtered Animal (overleaf), part of a retrospective exhibition at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, led one dowager to complain that "When I want raw meat, I'll send my chauffeur to the butcher...