Word: john
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Henry D. Aiken, associate professor of Philosophy, and John D. Wild, professor of Philosophy, interpreted the value and nature of religion from the respective points of view of humanism and realism last night before a crowd of nearly 300 at the Adams House Forum...
Kirkland won the A league game, 40-28, last night, after beating Dudley's B league team, 38-12, during the afternoon. The Deacons held the lead all the way in both games. John Pankey was high scorer in the A league game and Walter Raushenbush took that spot in the B. Both are from Kirkland...
...Misalliance" is Shaw late in his first period. He is less concerned with dramatic plots than with what he has to say. Four characters present contrasting points of view: John Tarleton Sr. (Jerry Kilty), a prosperous underwear manufacturer and a representative of the middle class, would revolt against his day to day life for one of ideas; his son (Miles Morgan), a middle class moralist, "likes to know where he is;" daughter Hypatia (Helen Mareey) fights against her middle class associates who sit around and "discuss whether what other people say is right;" and Lord Summerhays (Thayer David) represents traditional...
Miss Mareey mixes frivolity and seriousness with a skill that gives depth to her role; Miss Farrand handles the difficult role of the aerobat adequately although she seems a bit forced. Unfortunately Morgan's John is not quite natural and makes his point somewhat more difficult to comprehend. Most outstanding is Peter Temple, who as an impoverished clerk gives a great deal of blunt humor to a play which is necessarily more subtle in its important topics...
...Bowles has dropped several John O'Hara characters into a Prokosch setting and used them to establish the fact that the human race is going into a moral Sahara fast. It is difficult to picture these people going any other way, but at the same time it is unfair to use them to symbolize all of humanity...