Word: south
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shabby Battle. The latest filibuster was a shabby debate in which the real subject was almost never mentioned. The battle, as everyone knew, was actually over Harry Truman's program to guarantee civil rights to Negroes in the South. That kind of federal assault on historic Southern prejudices was an issue which the South was always ready to fight tooth & nail...
What is worrying him is the prospect of the Spring Trip--the terrifying, season-opening, four-game, vacation-time trip south to the Baltimore region--where lacrosse is really big-league--to play among others, Navy and Maryland. Last year Navy walloped the team, 13 to 3, and Maryland shut...
That adjective "wonderful" applies to nearly everything about "South Pacific." Take the story, for instance. It was based on James Michener's Pulitzer Prize "Tales Of The South Pacific," and the relationship of Oscar Hammerstein's piece to Michener's is closer than I would have supposed possible. There are, of course, the wonderful "characters," such as the lusty, nonchalant Luther Billis and the colorful, to say the least, Bloody Mary. There is also the love story of Lt. Joseph Cable and the native girl Liat, beautifully and simply told...
...main story, however, is chiefly Hammerstein's work. It is a love story, the pair involved consisting of a U. S. Navy nurse and a Frenchman who is approaching middle-age and lives in the south Pacific. I won't tax you with a synopsis of its details, but it adds up, despite a woefully slow first scene, to what is probably the first amorous relationship that has ever had any substance in the history of musicals...
...Mary Martin. She can touch your heart as surely as she can tickle your funny bone, and she does both in "South Pacific." I could cite chapter and verse for a week, but will let it go with the statement that Mary Martin is wonderful. Which is what I started out to say in the first place...