Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hundreds of these tags. But under the plain, deep and ominous, sometimes even bumping up against the surface, rages The American Civil War, the real one. A lost Confederate general, so scared he hears himself calling out his own name, "running through the casual but chess-like deaths in the Wilderness." A headlike corpse. Upstairs and downstairs. Marijuana smoke and cannon smoke. As the Poet sings: "A punctured lung, and the band plays on." The perfect Setup...
...Harvard squash team will meet its first real test today against Army in Hemenway Gymnasium at 2 p.m. The Crimson squad and the Cadets are both undefeated, although neither has faced a strong opponent so far this season...
...barmaids, and roustabouts all--burst onto the stage intermittently with the same kind of gratuitous cavorting. A chorus number in a pub scene must be granted a certain amount of theatrical realism. The revelers sing so drunkenly that at least about half of the scene is completely unintelligible. The real problem, though, isn't that similar bits aren't funny (though they often aren't), but that they don't contribute to the more intricate and restrained development of the main action...
...convince her betrothed, Marlow (Andre Bishop), that he needn't stutter so before gentleladies, since he's so often displayed his knack with the wenches. In the process, Miss Yakutis makes a charming transition from country lady to lusty serving woman. Either way, she's a maid who's real talent lies in raising her eyebrows at just the right moment. Perhaps, she could instruct Mr. Etstein...
...governor's road-building program, moreover, has always had only one real aim: to move traffic. Time and time again, communities have protested the losses in housing and unemployment which Volpe's hard-driving road program was imposing upon them. Since its founding two years ago, the federal Department of Transportation has been creeping toward a policy of taking a hard look at such costs of building roads before approving them. If he holds true to form Volpe will reverse this trend, making Federal road-building once again simply a matter of pouring concrete along lines dictated by traffic flows...