Word: yank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is most remarkable about the play is how effortlessly Rabe goes beyond the war and what is obvious to proceed with the personal story of Pavlo Hummel. It baffles classification and makes world war two dramas like Arthur Laurent's Home of the Brave look like a Yank comic strip. For Hummel the army world is his only hope for salvation, the only remedy for his fatherlessness. And in a way he makes it his salvation. Home on a furlough, his pink-suited, mod half-brother treats him with the mild contempt he always has until Hummel explodes. "Look...
...Harrison loves to stress the negative. If you make a mistake. Harrison will yank you right out of the line-up. A number of times people went into the game as substitutes and made mistakes the first time they got the ball. Harrison immediately took them out of the line-up," he said...
Jane Pittman is the ancient of ancients, nearly 110 years old, on a Louisiana plantation. Recollecting her life for a tape recorder, she remembers herself first as a slave child, fetching water for Confederate soldiers in retreat, then for Yankees in pursuit. A Yank corporal named Brown tells her to look him up in Ohio. After the Emancipation Proclamation, she sets out to do just that. Most of the ex-slaves impulsively migrating north with her are killed by white-trash patrollers. The moral is fundamental to Gaines' temperament: the more things change, the more they seem to stay...
Although the graduation of record-breaking Yank Heister and three other lettermen will hurt, there are three golfers back from last year's 11-3 squad-Sherman. Cooch Owen, and Skip Kistner. "Three returning players is a good start for a solid seven-man team. And we've got a great bunch of sophomores," said Sherman...
Yesterday. the Crimson's bottom three Fred Sherman. Pat Grant, and Skip Kistner-earned all of the team's points. Sherman thus compiled a 12-2 season mark. while captain Yank Heisler finished...