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...Hedda had been a kind of platonic muse to Eilert Lovborg (David Newman), a brilliant but dissolute writer and thinker. Out of temperamental fatigue ("I have danced practically all my life-and I was getting tired . . . My summer was up"), she has married an aunt-coddled pedant named Jorgen Tesman. She has moved from a danger that stirred her inner being to a safety that curdles her inner being. Lovborg has since found a new muse, Thea Elvsted (Anne Fielding), a married woman far inferior to Hedda in intellect but considerably more pliant sexually. Tesman's friend, the somewhat...
Pennsylvania swept the singles as Tesman defeated Jenkins, 6-8, 6-1, 9-7; McCracken won 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 against Hyde; Schafer downed Orme Wilson, 6-2, 6-4; Olson took Cohn by 6-1, 6-4; Lin Burton lost to Penn's Peele by 6-3, 7-5; and Kissel was defeated by Garret, 6-4, 3-6, 10-8. The Crimson got its only points in the doubles, when Hyde and Dick Sorlien beat Tesman and Olson; 8-6, 6-3, while Jenkins and Ezell were defeating Peele and Lefkowith...
This Ibsen girl, as the glum apothecary of Grimstad made her, is a relentless person, chilled of blood, chiseled of expression. She marries George Tesman because, as she reluctantly admits, her day is done. Tesman, an ultimate conception of the paperbound pedagog, is counting upon a professorship to offset Hedda's extravagances, when he learns that Eilert Lovborg, his onetime friend, has renounced debauchery, published a history of civilization, and may be regarded as a competitor for the professorship. Lovborg, however, reassures George that he is satisfied with his moral victory over vicious diversion...