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...formed a loose association called "Free Cinema." Their self-assigned mission was to break away from the brittle, upper-middle-class-oriented British film tradition and make gritty, naturalistic movies about the life of the English majority-the working class. Anderson succeeded superbly with his 1963 adaptation of David Storey's novel about semipro rugby players, This Sporting Life. He then turned to "strong humanist statements," notably If . . . Set in Anderson's old school, Cheltenham College, If . . . ends with the students revolting against the stifling hypocrisies of the institution by mowing down faculty and trustees with machine guns...
...Browsers can, be they greenhorn or fanatic, make a lifetime of it. At Grolier's (6 Plympton St.) you never know what rare antique find you may happen upon. It is the same story at the Starr Book Shop (29 Plympton St.), and the Mandrake Bookstore (8 Storey...
...merger" contract between Harvard and Radcliffe has implications which were not fully explored before this year and which Radcliffe administrators are finding difficult to implement, Susan Storey Lyman '49, chairwoman of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees, said last night...
...Changing Room is Storey's most powerful and moving drama, it is because he has found in sport his purest metaphor for the war of existence. The characters are a semi-pro English north country rugby team. Six days of the week, they are peaceable, nondescript employees somewhere. On the seventh day, they gird up their loins for gory combat. The changing room is where they come and go from their catchpenny Armageddon. In Act I, the men perform their initiation rites, strip down, loosen muscles, get into their uniforms. In Act II, they come off the field...
That is all there is, but it is enough to make this the finest new play seen on the North American continent this season, barring a miracle. The reason is not in the plot but in Storey's ability to be as intimate with his characters' hurts, hopes, desires and fighting instincts as an incomparable specialist doing open-heart surgery. The cast cannot be praised singly or too highly. All are Americans, yet their English accents are so authentic that they seem to have been flown in by BOAC. Director Michael Rudman has elicited ensemble acting from this...