Word: scene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Harvard's ghost appeared briefly on the scene to predict that the Crimson would trounce the Tigers 60-14 in revenge for last year's 16-14 defeat. He also guaranteed that each cheerleader would do 35 push-ups to entertain the crowd at today's contest...
...third of the play's four acts they come together in front of the ramshackle farmhouse where the girl lives, and he confesses, in a long, anguished monologue, the most tormenting of his guilty secrets. This scene and the one that follows and resolves it are the best parts of the evening; once Jim Tyrone begins to open his heart, A Moon for the Misbegotten becomes and stays interesting. But somehow it never becomes as powerful or haunting as might be expected from the combination of this author and these themes. The old O'Neill faults, on the other hand...
...Miss Howard and Mr. Hooks are somewhat weak in technique, they are strong in feeling. Their long love scene together is not particularly moving (which seems to be O'Neill's fault), but it is convincingly played...
...Rogers earphones, listen intently and then murmur into microphones which they hold before them. At the front of the room, tape recorders whirl; an instructor watches them and occasionally twists dials to discover how his proteges are fairing in their strange new world of a foreign tongue. The entire scene contrasts with the grim, grey exterior of the building; the lab itself is bright, cheering, and more like 1984 than 1859. And, at last, language teaching at the College has caught up with the twentieth century...
...been the biggest flop. The only thing the festivities lacked was spontaneity. On the domestic front, the regime was looking for a vote of confidence; all it got was a public ready and willing to have a politically neutral good time. On the international front, in a scene reminiscent of Moscow May Days, the French paraded through the Concorde all their newest and finest military equipment. Jets trailing blue, white, and red streams flew overhead. The aerial effect was gaudy, but the material comparison with the Red Square extravaganza was pitiful. "The French Army," said an American observer, "is admirably...