Word: uriah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retelling the famous Bible story of how David lusted after the beautiful Bathsheba (Pamela Kellino, Actor Mason's wife), seduced her, and then sent her husband Uriah to be killed in battle, Playwright Deval has altered the intense black-&-white of its morality to a sleek Gallic grey. His David is both an evildoer and a decent-minded worldling. Having wronged Uriah, he afterwards tries to set things as right as possible...
...Uriah is a disconcerting, fair-haired innocent-a rigidly idealistic young soldier who takes noble vows and blindly worships his king. David finally concludes that death for Uriah would be infinitely less tragic than disillusionment and marital dishonor...
...average undergraduate, the business manager of the University is a combination of March 15th and a finance company, with added shades of Uriah Heep. In the case of the present business manager, this picture is not accurate and less than fair. For in a postwar confusion that has the veteran student in a tight economic squeeze, Aldrich Durant is forced to voice, administer, and often defend unpopular fiscal policies that stem from the sacrosanct provinces of Harvard's Olympian body, the Corporation. Most of the recent rent and board increases were settled in the semi-monthly meetings of the Corporation...
...statue, a hideous bronze, did not seem so much out of place as might have been supposed. The Hall, a ghostly place with mysterious acoustics, is a majestic marble democracy wherein the modest statues of the truly great are crowded out by the effigies of such comparative unknowns as Uriah Rose of Arkansas. George Shoup of Idaho. At night, rats squeak and gibber around the bases of the monuments...