Word: pursuers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barry Morse, who is regarded as Canada's leading actor, gave a sparklingly burnished performance as Jack TannerDon Juan, and Rosemary Harris was his delightful pursuer and ensnarer. Kilty was fine in the double role of the brigand Mendoza and the Devil. His production constituted the high point of the Weslesley season, as it had two years previously...
...gunnery officer of Fighting Squadron 3. He set up mock dogfights, gave new pilots the advantage of altitude and invited them to "stay on my tail." Few could. Invariably. he sat in his cockpit eating an apple as a gesture of contempt for his foe, almost invariably evaded his pursuer before the apple was eaten...
...girl waits loyally while the boy tries desperately but unsuccessfully to shake his crude, nearly crazed pursuer. In the book's final burst of violence, the sergeant moves rapidly to an inevitable end. Author Murphy's scenes of Army life abroad are nearly faultless (he served in France in 1953-54), and he sticks to his story with a relentlessness rare in a first novelist. He maintains enormous suspense, never lets his characters get out of character, and makes a genuine tragedy of an unsavory situation...
...Such a decoy is hard to distinguish from a real bomber, and an attacking interceptor or missile is apt to "lock onto" it and let the bomber escape. Nature thought of this trick long before man did. Many lizards shed their tails when they are hotly pursued. The pursuer captures only the tail; the rest of the lizard escapes and grows another tail...
...York. It is especially welcome and timely in view of Wellesley's current presentation of Man and Superman. For Shaw wrote Methuselah in 1921 as a companion sequel to his Superman of 1903. In the earlier play Shaw argued his thesis, taken from Schopenhauer, that woman is the pursuer rather than the pursued; and his ideas, taken from Bergson, about the Life Force (elan vital). Methuselah continues the same discussion, except that Shaw now adopts Bergson's later term Creative Evolution...