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...this performance of Volpone is worthy of its theatre; the cast does an outstanding job with a rather difficult play, Stefan Zweig's adaptation of Ben Jonson's sixteenth century original. Jonson's version shows a man who tricks others eventually being tricked himself: the avaricious Volpone collects expensive gifts by pretending that he is dying and will leave his fortune to whoever materially proves his friendship. After an extraordinarily complex set of misunderstandings, misdeeds, and mistrials. Volpone is condemned to lie in prison until he becomes as sick as he pretended to be. Following the tradition of "animal fables...
...wind changed in the final quarter and Harvard walked all over exhausted Andover. Forward Jim Vargas kicked his sixteenth goal of the season unassisted, and Robertson tallied his second of the game on a pass from Vargas...
...Crimson's Dave Allen won the race, setting a record of 26:21 over the five and one-sixteenth mile Ithaca course. His time erased the mark set by Cornell's Steve Machooka...
...years, Novelist James M. Cain has worked a literary lode bordering a trash heap. Even his best works−The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce, Double Indemnity−reeked of their neighborhood, and no doubt as a consequence were made into movies. In this novel, his sixteenth, Cain has at last achieved breakthrough. The Magician's Wife is pure trash. The book is so bad, in fact, that it is redeemed by its own absolute sins against credibility, plot, characterization and style. Reading it becomes a suspenseful exercise in disbelief, in which the reader is sustained, as well...
Harvard triumphed with what might easily be termed a satirical finish. Down by two holes after nine had been played, Bergman rallied to tie on the sixteenth, halved the seventeenth, and won the final par-four hole with a six, as his opponent carded a triple bogey...