Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spoonerisms,"† and familiar fables in a gobbledygook of backtalk. (Examples: the Pee Little Thrigs, Wink van Ripple, the Beeping Sleauty, Paul Revide's Rear...
...Druid Circle (by John van Druten; produced by Alfred de Liagre Jr.) deals with life-or rather the awful lack of it-in a wormy provincial British university "near the borders of England and Wales." The leading spirits there are all husks and cinders, all genteel pedants dead from the neck down. Worst of all is 53-year-old Professor White (beautifully played by Leo G. Carroll), whose thin blood has turned to bile, and who hates youth pathologically, not just as something that has vanished, but as something that never came...
...than at first appears-all the difference between the stuff of satire and the stuff of drama. With fluttering spinsters and tea-table gossip constantly cutting in on the professor's story, The Druid Circle seems too intense at moments, yet not intense enough as a whole. Playwright van Druten, who as a young man taught for a time at the sort of college he portrays, has perhaps put his imagination in bondage to his memories...
...Varsity will race again at Princeton next Saturday in the Nonagonals and on November 17, the Crimson will finish out the season with the IC4A championships at New York's Van Cortland Park...
...administrative core of the Foundation's work is a fifteen-man "student council," composed of both Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates under the presidency of Paul Van Buren ocC. Nearly all council members are chairmen of sub-organizations, such as the choir which sings at the Sunday services...