Word: though
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Viema has little beauty today, though the vestiges are there. the Germans made their last stand against the Russians on the Danube so that the East bank of the River and the central part of the city are terribly battered. Pock marks of the Russian chase cover the walls of buildings even in the Western outskirts. The Viennese hold everyone else responsible for the wreck. They do not yearn for another Anschluss and have no love for the Germans. But they loathe the Russians with a combined intolerance for Slavism, vengeance, and a culture less developed than their...
Anton Chekhov chose to call this play a comedy, and we must accept his word for that, even though the tragic fate of the two young lovers does not comply with the conventional comedy ending. Perhaps the comic element in "The Sea Gull" lies in the irony of the young writer's rejection by his mother, his sweetheart, and his public; all three of whom take to their hearts an older writer the young regards as a hack. "The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to these who feel," is Herace Walpole's useful reminder...
...Union Boat Club is sponsoring the affair in hopes of encouraging graduating Harvard and MIT rowers to join the club crew. No one seems to be very worried about winning. Crow coach Tom Holles hasn't even named a crew for the race, though he is pretty certain that Art Rouner will stroke...
...reading theater, actors do not memorize roles but read their parts directly from the script. "We keep the dramatic value of the play, even though we eliminate costly staging," Norris stated last night...
...schism has been long coming," Train said. "Many of us felt that the Lampon has been catering to the 'lower class' element in the College, and the issue came to a boil when the editors declined to publish a though provoking profile of Shirley May France...