Word: vies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Panting at the prospect of a "bang-up time promised for all" at the Wellesley get-acquainted dance Saturday night, over 300 self-styled protagonists of the dance and allied fields stormed the CRIMSON office early yesterday morning to vie for positions on the limited list of 200 to be accepted for the get-together...
...some, "Private Lives" may be purely period stuff; to others--if so interested a point in Noel Coward's rather halcyon development. To the more romantically inclined, it may seem the gay picture of "la vie de joie"; to the socially bent, a milestone of that smooth highway on which the London Smart Set zipped along in its multipowered Stutz, bound for decay. But dated or not natural or textual, the production at the Colonial is a combination of some of this century's smoothest dialogue, shouted, laughed, cried, and whispered by something rare in the theatrical world an acres...
...been difficult here as elsewhere to stay at the high tide of optimism. The veteran, backed by G.I. Benefits, has not found his personal problems of readjustment difficult. But veteran and non-veteran alike find hard the complex of college, national, and international problems which now vie for their attention. The temptation is great to become immersed in the close-at-hand affairs of the University, or to concentrate overly much on tasks of limited scope such as shipping food boxes to foreign students. Even greater is the temptation to follow the example of Noah who returned to the safety...
...this half of their double bill undoubtedly lies to some extent in its choice of a play within its acting means; failure to practice this preachment proves the undoing of the remainder of the program. The Yeats translation of "Oedipus" may be meat for Laurence Olivier and the Old Vie, but it is so far beyond the resources of Radcliffe College and associated institutions as to make any effort at producing it almost worthless...
...Yeats translation of "Oedipus" has rarely been produced in this country. Idler precedes a coming "Oedipus" production by the Old Vie in New York with Lawrence Olivier...