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Tiger catcher Bill Freehan set the scene for the whole tragi-comic affair by bouncing a freak single off the third base bag. Red Sox starter Ray Culp. who had pitched out of jams in the first and second innings, dug himself in again by walking Jim Northrup...
Guthke, now a professor at the University of Toronto, will become professor of German Literature, effective July 1. His publications include Modern Tragi-Comedy and Wege zur Literatur, a collection of essays...
...tragi-triptych fortunately leaned on a combination of honest grappling and pure stagecraft, give or take a few lapses. Douglas was by turns crusty and touching as the rebellious old man who refuses to settle down as a withering weed. When a thoroughly resigned oldster (Shirley Booth) gurgles, "You've given me so much," Douglas rasps back, "Anger, I hope." All the same, many aged Americans could well envy Douglas' solution: he merely packs up and goes back to his own house...
...utopia rings false: "we want football tickets, travelling fellowships, representation on educational policy committees." Hers is a world of things, not emotions, desires, or values (and, except for fellowships, they are rather small things at that: "we want a graduation ceremony that is part of Harvard's.") Her tragi-comic, feminist pleas for equal status ("and Radcliffe, oh Radcliffe, how long...") bear little relation to her conclusion that Radcliffe girls leave after four years feeling that they" were never part of something." Many, many people at Harvard are no different...
...mere chaff compared to Chekhov's masterpieces, but even chaff will do for a light snack. This is all that the Theatre Company of Boston intends to serve with its current production. The play has ambiguous possibilities: it could be staged as light comedy or as rather heavy tragi-comedy. The Theatre Company has chosen to save its sobriety for meatier drama...