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This fall four Ivy League soccer teams were invited to participate in the NOAA University division regional playoffs: Harvard, Brown, Columbia, and Penn. Three of those teams were ranked in the top twenty of the nation: Harvard third, Brown eighth, and Penn seventeenth...
...English ladies and gentlemen to arrive in Indian country were not overly burdened with the urge to keep church and state separate. John H. Laubach, in his book, School Prayers: Congress, the Courts and the Public, writes: "The Puritan settlement . . . of Massachusetts Bay . . . established under Governor Winthrop . . . in the seventeenth century sought to join the cross and the sword in founding a new Israel, following the Calvinist model." In 1639, the General Court of Massachusetts summoned Ann Hutchinson, charging that she allowed religiously unorthodox people to meet in her home and air their unseemly doctrines. Part of the transcript...
Singer's stories and novels are varied in scope and focus. The Magacian of Lublin is a bittersweet variation on the theme of the Wandering Jew; Satan in Goray deals with the orgiastic response to a false messiah in seventeenth-century Poland, while stories like "Short Friday" celebrate domesticity and the simple virtues: But perhaps Singer's masterpiece of short fiction, "Gimpel the Fool." provides the most tender display of his virtuoso talent. In a world which places a premium on wisdom, Singer's hero is the fool, the one who receives goat turds instead of sweets. The simpleton...
...tests that an actor has to face, range is crucial. Gunn impressively demonstrated his range in two vastly different off-Broadway performances. In Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, he played a middle-aging bull of a canecutter foreman who loses his job and his virile stud appeal at about the same time. Gunn made the man a blinded, shorn, bewildered Samson who wrenches at the pillars of his doom in one last mighty agony. In Daddy Goodness, a play about a religious con artist, Gunn fashioned a composite portrait of a store-front Father Divine, a Harlem dandy...
...victory was the Bulldogs' seventeenth Ivy win in a row over three seasons. Eli quarterback Joe Massey marched the team 74 yards after the kick-off, depending mainly on the running of half-back Don Martin and fullback Bill Primps, and the outcome of the game was decided...