Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elis are astoundingly weak at the top. Their number one player is Ralph West who was beaten by Dinny Adams in last year's freshman match. Adams is now playing number seven for Harvard...
...presenting The Exception and the Rule, director Steve Most had to make dramatic a play that would rather drone. "Weak men die, strong men fight," bellows the Merchant as he drives his coolie across the desert of an Eastern land to be first at the new oil deposits. Obviously a faithful reader of Herbert Spencer, the Merchant is inhumanly exploiting the coolie, who only wants to make an honest...
Machiavelli and the typical Jewish usurer convey little to a modern audience, however, and the play needs a touch of the ham to be saved from mediocrity. The actors play slapstick so well that the production's one weak moment is an off-spring of their own success. In the last act, Barabas gets caught in his own plot and sinks to a painful death in a "deep pit past recovery." His wile has betrayed him, and his snarling vengeance ("Damn'd Christians, dogs, and Turkish Infidels,") echoes across the stage. Having avoided the serious side of Barabas' treachery until...
...Crimson swimming team gets some more pleasant exercise this afternoon as they face a Penn team that is almost unbelievably weak. The meet starts...
...Phillip Hecksher as Techelles bring some life to their parts. A few of the 42 parts are also noticeably bad; Richard Backus races through the brief prologue at breakneck speed and Jeremiah Tower seems to feel that Mycetes must be made monotonous in order to show that he is weak. But the lines become so repetitious that the characters for the most part float by unnoticed...