Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sentenced to death twelve times and he refused to yield. Another man was made to dig his own grave, was taken before a firing squad, heard the command to fire and heard the pistols click on empty chambers; and he refused to yield. Such testimony as this seems to teach us that the spirit of man can run deeper than the reflexes of Pavlov...
...authors, turning from the question of whether a professor should teach as he pleases, examine also that phenomenon of college life, the aging athlete. Pirie MacDonald Tutchings gives a good overall performance in the part, but his Joe Ferguson becomes too introspective in later scenes. He blusters well in act one, but later in the play when Ferguson tones down, even reforms a bit, Tutchings destroys the unthinking, impulsive protrayal so necessary to the play...
Captain Fisby (John Forsythe) is sent to the village of Tobiki with orders to teach the natives democracy and to build them a pentagon-shaped schoolhouse. He brilliantly bungles his assignment: rather than march them glumly in formation toward their desired goal, he lets them mosey to it down their own primrose path. They wax prosperous selling sweet-potato brandy to the U.S. armed forces; they grow affectionate when allowed to build a teahouse instead of a school. There is not only joy in Tobiki, but, at the final curtain, notable satisfaction in Washington. A genial satire, the play blueprints...
...just after the liberation. Rocco de Donatis, the local Communist leader, is growing death-tired of party lines. "You have the sadness," an old woman tells him, "of one who set out to go very far and ends up by finding himself where he began. Didn't they teach you at school that the world is round...
...table with five official Navy models that students try to identify, we moved on to a replica of a ship's bow standing about four feet high. Because many shipboard accidents occur when NROTC lubbers run afoul of the anchor chain, there is a complete anchor rigging to teach Harvard's sailors where not to stand when the anchor drops...