Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...lacking in the originality and horrifying interest of the latter; it doesn't have the graphic eroticism of the former. There is an uneasy amount of symbolism (to put across in dialogue), and the symbols and extended metaphors are brought up and then dismissed to make way for others. (This, by the way, is not Wilson's first published play; a collection of his earlier plays was issued under the enticing title. "This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches...
Edmund Wilson doesn't know, apparently, too much about play writhing. But if this play were ever produced, he would make one actor very happy, I wager. That would be the actor who played The Gardener. He is the character who does the moralizing; he is the philosopher whom no one ever listens to. When everyone else has been killed by a death-ray flash-light, he is left on the stage to talk by himself for a good three minutes. A good deal, eh? But now get this--in the first scene the Gardener is an Italian...
...Hoover Commission, a non-partisan body established in 1947 to work out ways of simplifying the government's bureaucracy. The Commission reported in 1948, and last year the president sent his first seven plans to Capitol Hill where six passed. Under a regulation, the President is empowered to make changes in his branch of government so long as neither house of Congress disapproves of his plans before a set date--this time May 23. This rule was intended by Congress as self-defense against interest-group pressure--pressure more likely to affect actions of representatives than those of the chief...
Except for the discrimination clause, on which next year's Council will have to rule, the rules will go into effect next fall unless Watson or the Faculty Committee on Undergraduate Activities make changes in them as they stand...
...scoring was concluded in the next inning. Akillian got a hold of one of Formans' fast balls and lashed it to center. Huntington advanced Akillian when Forman tried to make the play at third, failing on a late throw. Both hands were safe. Akillian scored when Cavanaugh's double play ball ended up in right field. Foynes got credit for his second run batted in when his single scored Huntington...