Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside Dillon Field House instead of the usual mimeographed depth charts: there were green sheets with one word on them-"Ivy." The managers had made the sheets partly to divert the players from thinking about B.U. But a look at the injury list made the sheets seem discomfiting...
...legend of the Harvard cross-country team. Mr. Fair, McCurdy, and freshman coach Pappy Hunt rolled on with Penn behind. They have an awful lot of fun, which may seem strange for a cross-country team. You'd probably expect them to be pain machines with that no-nonsense attitude. But they've come to realize how good they are, something I'm sure they've always suspected. They were winners in high school, and after just a short time here figured out that they were the closest thing to unbeatable around. You can't help but realize they...
...play, Esther (Betty Field) is married to Victor Franz (Michael Strong) who has been fending with his brother Walter (Sheppard Strudwick) for 28 years. Although the brothers' abilities and inclinations were similar, Victor became a policeman, Walter a successful surgeon. Both Victor and Walter seem unhappy and blame others for forcing them into their present situation. However, each is responsible for his own choice- a choice that had to be made and must be recognized. What Esther often says of herself is true of the two men, "I can never believe what I see before...
They came into the audience at the end of the evening and asked to be loved. And the Loeb audience, the bourgeoisie and its offspring, did seem to love these metamorphosed gutter rats from New York. Partly this was because they had entertained us, and for that we stood to applaud. They had taken milk crates (their only set or props) and marched with them straight into ballet. And they had externalized the tenseness of their maladjustments into the tension of drama...
...novel is also marred to a certain extent by shallow character development. Williams simply does not reach into and bring out his minor characters as he did in The Man Who Cried I Am. For all their humanity they seem incomplete; in some instances they speak and act like puppets...