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...Three years ago, returning by air from a trip to Hong Kong, an enthusiastic young Cantabrigian named Adrian Cowell thought it would be nice if the ancient rivalry were carried into a new arena. "It would be real competition," he told a friend as he gazed down at the trackless wastes below the plane, "if we got an Oxford and a Cambridge team together to see which could get through the jungle...
...over his imagery, and that he must have wanted to squeeze some concentrated extract of meaning out of his story when he decided to employ the type of speech he used. But his efforts were not notably apparent. A single hearing left me, at least, with an impression of trackless confusion far deeper than the Amazon jungle where part of the play takes place...
...most people the mention of Finnegans Wake suggests a trackless forest of tangled Joycean jargon, huge, ambiguous, largely inexplicable, and hence poorly suited to stage production. But the present Poets' Theatre version proves that quite the opposite is true. Digging out some of the book's principal themes--not all, to be sure--and taking the best advantage of its circular form and the musical quality of Joyce's language, the Poets have arrived at a truly successful adaptation which never fails to be entertaining...
After the freshman glee club sang, the throng pushed through the Yard gates onto Massachusetts Avenue. There, they halted traffic and a few climbed on cars. The only casualty of the evening resulted after a freshman tried to pull off the wire of a trackless trolley. He cut himself when a Yard proctor pulled him down...
...brisk, businesslike officials gave each man a number and a map. One by one, as the numbers were called, each man trotted off by himself, whipped out a small compass, lined up his map and raced into the tangled underbrush. For the next three hours, they pounded across rough, trackless terrain, climbed steep hills, forded icy streams, slogged through black swamps. Every couple of miles they passed through carefully spotted check points to prove that they were sticking to a prearranged course. If they read the maps well enough, were good enough woodsmen, and if their legs and lungs held...