Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five of the seven games played between 1922 and 1932, Brown scored victories, but another spell of Crimson dominance was at hand. Beginning with the 1933 contest, the varsity held Brown to 13 points in five years, winning by margins...
...Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music. A sentimental evening with the famous Trapp family of singers, the show tells the story of Maria Rainer (Mary Martin), the young postulant from an Austrian convent, whose love for a widower, Captain Georg von Trapp (Theodore Bikel), and his seven children displaces her desire to become a nun. As one theatergoer summed it up: "Nellie Forbush in The Nun's Story." The advance sale has already passed...
...discards her. Having found "four successive hit plays in corners of the commonplace overlooked by his fellow playwrights," wrote the Washington Evening Star, "Inge goes for a fifth in A Loss of Roses." ¶ Goodbye Charlie, bought for the movies while it was still rolling out of George (Seven Year Itch) Axelrod's typewriter, was a moneymaker before it went into rehearsal. All it needs now, as Author Axelrod sees it, is a new finish. Boasting the most improbable plot since the satyrical heyday of Thorne Smith, Charlie tells the story of a $3,000-a-week Hollywood writer...
This week Still, who has not shown a single painting in seven years, is relenting in a big way, as Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery opens its doors on a one-man show of 72 oils covering 21 years. Still set stiff terms: all pictures were to be hung by himself, all competing modern canvases were to be banished from sight...
...prophetic incident; for decades Joyce would inspire battles between the code sniffers and the cult worshipers. Once when asked why he put so many puzzlers into his works, Joyce replied: "To occupy my critics for 300 years." Richard Ellmann, professor of English at Northwestern University, worked a mere seven years on this huge biography, but its great and fascinating merit is that it demystifies Joyce without debunking him. It will be read as long as James Joyce is read...