Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Preston, this disaster's star, noted recently that it's the most "literary" play he's read in years, and indeed it is. Take, for example, the twelfth century similes: "You're like the rocks of Stonehenge, nothing can knock you down;" or, "You're dull as plainsong." or then again, "You're so foul you're fair." At times, it seems like the entire purpose of the drama is to show that the Plantagnets were, after all, just folks. "You're a failure as a father," the adolescent Prince John accuses the King, while the Queen muses, "Children...
...Play of Daniel is a twelfth century musical drama about the life of the prophet Daniel. With music, song, and narration it tells the story of the writing on the wall, the lion's den, and the fall of Belshazzar. The Lowell House Music Society's production at St. Paul's Catholic Church is replete with processionals, swinging censers, and echoing trumpets. Backed by the cavernous marble nave, the play is infused with a sense of the ancient and the divine. Although the beautiful voice and lovely, archaic music are enough to make the program a success, there are faults...
Born of an obscure Nottinghamshire family, Allenby could nevertheless claim a martial ancestor of distinction: Oliver Cromwell. Still, he joined the army merely by mischance, having previously failed his civil service exams. A big quiet clumsy boy, he passed out twelfth in his class at Sandhurst, and was promptly gazetted to the Inniskilling Dragoons near Durban, South Africa, where he spent the better part of the next 20 years. When the Boer War began, he was 38 and had never fired a shot in anger. When the war was over, he was a tough, cunning, unbeatable commander of cavalry...
...membership of their churches to anyone regardless of race. National City is only nominally integrated: out of 1,025 members of the church, which is in a predominantly Negro neighborhood, four are Negro. His critics charge that Davis has quietly encouraged potential applicants to try the nearby all-Negro Twelfth Street Christian Church...
Davis concedes that his church may not have done enough to encourage Negroes to join, and admits that National City should probably incorporate the poverty-stricken Twelfth Street Church. But he explains that church integration is fraught with subtle dangers, and must be done on a carefully controlled basis. "When you get to a certain percentage, you cannot allow any more, or else the church will become all another race," he says...