Word: classically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poet began his talk by discussing the here concept in many of its different forms. "Quixote," he concluded, "lives in his own right beyond the words of Cervantes, continuing to classic new stories within the imagination of the reader. Like Little Abner, he outlives the imagination of his creation. He makes the Christian tradition immortal in himself as no strictly moral fictional character could...
Socrates is the name of the protagonist here, and Athens (California) is his home town; but these are the only classical touches in an otherwise humdrum production. This probe into the lusty bustle of Washington confusion is constructed along lines so directly opposite to plays dealing with the other Athens that all references to Greece and Grecian society appear dragged in by quotation marks and seem completely out of context. Revolving around a yearling Congressman who identifies himself with his namesake, the play attempts to inject an Old World perspective into the hurly-burly of politics; but long before...
Harvard-Yale contributions at the November 22 classic totalled over $6000 to swell the College's financial aid to United States athletes competing in London next summer...
Next to blondes, gentlemen prefer poker. Blackjack, learnedly classified as "vingt-et-un," is a low born associate of spinning ivories on khaki blankets, and is favored only by those majoring in R.O.T.C. The advent of General Education has definitely entrenched the five card classic, with numerous aberrations localized somewhat to the bank of the Charles...
...been ground smooth in the dialogue without losing a jot of theatrical shock. The Grecian mood, though it echoes rather tinnily through the New England characters, reverberates grandly on the super-loud sound track, in what O'Neill calls the "sumptuous simplicity" of the Mannon mansion, in the classic drape of the costumes, in the still, pure lighting of the picture...