Word: saga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rise and fall of the Crimson football team when it met Princeton will get a repeat performance on film in the Lamont Forum Room at 8 p.m. tonight. A member of the coaching staff, not yet announced, will narrate the saga, which is being distributed through the efforts of the Crimson...
...putting their interests ahead of his), she disobeys and is soon caught up in a heavy love affair with a tough numbers player (Dane Clark). The two are found out, just at the moment when he legitimately wins a big bet, and the rest of the play is a saga of hideaways, getaways and gunfire. Actors Vye and Clark make persuasive evildoers. And though the evil that they do will not live after them, it carries The Number safely through the evening...
Paint Your Wagon is a fetching musical about post-Gold Rush life in California. James Barton stars in Alan Lerner's earthy saga at the Shubert. Matinee today, evenings...
...Angels in the Outfield," the newest diamond saga, has taken over Paul Douglas from the original. Douglas, playing manager to a score of real live Pittsburgh Pirates, is a man fashioned after the great Leo Durocher. His boisterousness seems to be responsible for the position of the Pirates, eighth in the National League. Then one day an Angel makes a deal with him whereby the Pirates get a pennant if Douglas calms down...
Modest Yes. Faulkner lets Temple tell most of the story in confessional flashbacks. To set her sordid saga in symbolic perspective, however, he flanks dramatic dialogue with three incantatory prose sections. Flush with rhetoric and folk humor, these evoke what Faulkner himself calls "the vast splendid limitless panorama of America." They also invoke the high codes and courage Faulkner associates with the Old South, in this case the founders of Jefferson, Miss, in mythical Yoknapatawpha County, seat of Faulkner's fictional kingdom. The Temple Drakes, the Gowan Stevenses and their slack-spined, country-clubbing breed have corrupted these codes...