Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time to get out the bulldozers and dig down for a system of real firebreaks. Nothing short of a federal world government will do the trick...
Leading 42 to 39 with five minutes to go, the Yardling quintet succumbed to a Bruin surge led by Frank Mahoney and Ben Patrick and three minutes later was on the short end of a 46 to 42 score. Center Pat Dailey's two-pointer under the basket and high-scorer John Rockwell's foul shot with slightly more than a minute to play brought the Crimson to 45, but the crowd came to its feet in vain with five seconds remaining as Rockwell's one-hander slithered off the rim and the horn sounded...
Although the play is well written and bristles with important ideas, it falls short of the mark in its production. Missed cues and German accents heavy to the point of double talk give the play a certain ineptitude that has alienated critics and audiences alike, but does not detract from the great moral issues portrayed. Despite the lack of technique on the part of the cast, "Temper the Wind" brings the significant problems of today to the American stage for the first time since the end of the war. The authors have something important to say, something that greatly concerns...
Some of the poetry shows the kind of quality "Radditudes" should feature from cover to cover. "R. Frost," by Nancy A. Hood achieves clarity and avoids slushiness, a rare combination in youthful poetry. (The "R" presumably stands for "Robert.") Two poems by Nickie Raphaelson are short, neat, and talented, and some sort of prize was won by Marylon Buckley for three cinquains, but they have that vague quality of profound meaningless that could only be appreciated by an aesthete in a sleepy mood...
...them based, as were Tennyson's Idylls of the King, on Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Subtle and skillful as these were-more so than Tennyson's-they are not, in Critic Winters' opinion, Robinson's best work. He has selected eleven short poems, all written before 1925, which "can be equaled, I think, in the work of only four or five English and American poets of the past century and a half...