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...drama records the 20th reunion of the 1954 Pennsylvania State High School Basketball Champions. Four of the players gather in their coach's living room to relive the glory of their come-from-behind win, to drink a few beers, to swap locker room jokes. The high school heroes, grown men now, still refer to their host as "Coach" with the kind of nameless deference that is usually reserved for a parent. They look at him as the symbol of old times, as an exemplar of moral and physical strength...
After a few dirty jokes, some self-congratulatory reminiscences, and more than a couple of drinks, the reunion camaraderie begins to turn sour. First the boys turn against one another, and then they each turn inward and confess their own failures. Here, the actors' shortcomings are most noticeable. The self-confessions seem more like dispassionate monologues than the painful, soul-wrenching revelations that Miller intended them to be. During this confession scene the audience becomes confused as to how the characters are responding to one another. The focus of the play is diffused; the intensity of the drama is lost...
...coalition of student groups and striking printers met last night to plan a series of "militant and large-scale" support actions over the next two weeks to dramatize the issues of the printers' strike to those attending Commencement and Reunion activities and to pressure Harvard into settling the strike...
...organizers at the Phillips Brooks House meeting stressed the University's interest in conducting a smooth Reunion Week and Commencement ceremony...
...characterized the planned support actions as "legal and non-obstructive." Plans discussed included picketing of the four gates to the Yard through which people must pass to attend Commencement exercises, and demonstrations of mass support at Reunion affairs...