Word: towns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beginning dismally, the varsity trailed, 17-9, at the ten minute mark, playing with little apparent concern and almost no rebounding. By contrast, the Huskies had brought an impromptu band along to cheer them in this cross-town rivalry...
...Pagans is, admittedly, and old bromide. In John Patrick's play, a consistently unsuccessful priest named Brother Juniper comes with his niece Rosita to Santiago de Gante, a Mexican village devoid of faith. At first scorned by the populace, Juniper restores the Catholic Church by wresting the town's people's patron saint, a chrome-plated cowboy called Santiago, from the evil General Braga, who runs a resort for the "canape-eaters" where a monastery once stood. Rosita, meanwhile, falls in love with Pepe, the local atheist, and accepts him when he finally sees the light...
...cast in bronze, they become mysterious idols of fusion and confusion. Explains Paolozzi: "My occupation can be described as the erection of hollow gods with the head like an eye, the center part like a retina . . . the legs as decorated columns or towers, the torso like a tornado-struck town, a hillside or the slums of Calcutta . . . I am creating an image which does not exist. It's like walking into a room in a dream and seeing objects which you want to create...
...Once Upon a Christmas Tree (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* A fantasy by Paul Gallico about 13 orphans who spend Christ mas in a New England town. With Claude Rains, Charles Ruggles, Patty (Miracle Worker) Duke. Color...
...Mansion, by William Faulkner. The end of a dark, tangled trilogy (the other novels: The Hamlet, The Town...