Word: wish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HADRIAN VII. Playwright Peter Luke makes Frederick William Rolfe, one of the most freakishly talented eccentrics of English letters, the hero of Rolfe's own novel of wish-fulfillment, Hadrian the Seventh. Alec McCowen gives a polished performance as Rolfe, a rejected candidate for priesthood who is elected Pope...
...Committee on Faculty Organization (Fainsod Committee) will hold an open meeting to hear proposals on the role of students in Faculty decision-making 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. tonight in Geological Lecture Room. Representatives of student organizations or individual students who wish to present proposals should get in touch with Professor Merle Fainsod, chairman of the Committee, today. Professor Fainsod can be reached at the Director's Office, Widener Library on Extension 2401. The Committee will welcome written statements as well as oral presentations...
...WISH they didn't want us to laugh so much. Admittedly, we can always defend ourselves. We can tell ourselves our laughter is being evoked only to demonstrate once and for all just how cruel society is. But it's an unconvincing argument. No matter how we hide it, it is the fags--and the fags alone--whom we are deriding. That's how audiences work. A few years ago, the musical Cabaret learned something similar during its Boston tryout. One mock love song between the ghoulish and decadent German emcee and a fake gorilla ended with the emcee assuring...
Damn, but I wish plays like this didn't make it so easy for us to laugh at homosexuals. Thankfully, Fortune and Men's Eyes is somewhat unique in this respect. It is more honest than the average minstrel show. Before it ends, it shows us a true hell where the whole world is a prison, where the homosexual must fight brutally so that he can stay...
...wish to correct an erroneous impression that may be drawn from your article on the Student-Faculty Advisory Council meeting of March...