Word: rut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George R. Stewart writes inanimate prose about inanimate heroes. His best-selling books-with titles like Storm, Fire, or U.S. 40-generally describe some vast entity of nature or engineering and its ef fect upon scores of tiny lives. His new book might have been called Rut. Its chapters are headed "1841," "1842" and "1843" and so on, as year by ox-drawn year he records the development of the overland route to California. Back and forth the reader travels, five times in the first 100 pages alone, until a pair of transcontinental grooves has been worn into...
Shrewd, bearded Cecil F. P. Bancroft lifted Andover out of its classical rut, gave it a good faculty versed in modern science. In his time (1873-1901) Andover drew 9,600 boys from all over, including its first Negroes. "Banty's" boys began Andover's athletic rivalry with Exeter in 1878, winning in football 22-0. Andover has dominated since (42 games to 32 in all), even using halfbacks who charged the Exeter line singing Palestrina motets...
...about five minutes the getaway car rolls smoothly along the well-worn rut that cinema escapes almost invariably follow. But all at once the rut disappears and the signposts start to get confusing...
There are two shows, however, which avoid off-Broadway's avant-grade rut and substitute real theatricality: Sean O'Casey's Red Roses for Me, at the Greenwich Mews, and last year's Leverett House musical, Sing Muse, by Erich Segal and Joseph Raposo. The O'Casey ranks with the Broadway production of six years ago, which was prematurely ousted from the theater when a lease expired. It is a thrilling and beautiful play, to my mind one of the few masterpieces of this century...
...physical credibility to Wagner that his operas never had at the Met while Flagstad and Traubel trundled massively across the stage. Unlike Flagstad, who had a richer, lower voice, Nilsson believes in imbibing large doses of Italian opera to escape the "German consonants" and the "Wagnerian rut...