Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the best I've ever seen. There's no reason we should be doing as well as this now. But a good chemistry has developed among the players after winning a few games." The players credit West's intensity and contagious enthusiasm. Says Forward Tom Abernethy: "One big reason we're winning is that Coach West has us believing...
About an hour later, Haley discovered what he wanted. "Suddenly I found myself looking down: Tom Murray, Occupation?blacksmith,' and beneath him, 'Irene, M?for Mulatto,' and their children. The youngest was Elizabeth, age six. And that really grabbed me. That was Aunt Liz. I used to sit on her front porch and play with her long gray hair. The experience galvanized me. Grandma's words became real. It wasn't that I had not believed her. You just didn't not believe Grandma. But there was something about the fact that what Grandma had been talking about was right...
...Moore Show, affable Sergeant Enright from MacMillan and Wife and sweet Sandy Duncan from the apartment upstairs. But in Roots, they all turn counterfeit-treacherous, violent and contemptible. Only one white, Old George, is sympathetic. The blacks are noble and enduring, even forbearing when given a chance for revenge (Tom's opportunity to whip one of his white bosses). However unintentional, an apology from white America is contained subliminally in all of this-the blockbuster week-long programming, the parade of villainous white stars. It is a kind of ritual sacrifice of pop heroes, a small but formal self...
...student spending his first summer in a law firm finds the work not as interesting as he supposed, he might sit and moan that he should have pursued that dream of being an artist in Paris after all. But if the law student is named Tom Fuller '74 and if he has played the lead in the Gilbert and Sullivan shows for years then instead of idling away his time with wishful thinking, he sits down and writes a play. Softly Speaking, to be performed at Kirkland House March 3-5 with music by Gerald Moshell is the product...
...Travesties is stealing from life itself. Not literature or film but history is re-written when Lenin, Tristan Tzara, the Dadist and James Joyce meet in a library in Zurich. Their fictive joint story is told by a character who himself re-writes the story as he goes along. Tom Stoppard's scintillating play, studded with allusions to the radicals' works, which never did as well in New York as it deserved, is playing at the Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street, beginning...