Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With five minutes to play, fullback Jim rammed over tackle for the Crimson's touchdown, making the soore Columbia 7, Harvard 6. With everything on the next play, Nelson again hit tackle spot for the extra points. He through the line, but ran into a solid all of three Columbia secondary defenders and just barely made it to the goal . Tom Haggerty, one of the three up. Nelson's way, took a long time up. Nelson would qualify as a hero if he hadn't looked bad on pass defense. He, like the others, is sort of hero, junior grade...
...field was as hard to find as it was to play on. The Crimson walked a half mile through New York in soccer uniforms trying to locate...
Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," which officially opened the Loeb Drama Center on Saturday evening, is a long, ambiguous, dispirited play that professionals can hardly cope with. It is, I suspect, outside the range of amateurs. Although they can and do go through the motions of telling a story with considerable competence, they cannot endow it with a point of view. Nor can they become classical actors by working hard and willing...
Although "Troilus and Cressida" presents formidable acting problems, it provokes an interesting use of the stage. Stephen Aaron, director, has employed the apron stage with the audience ranged around three sides; and he has designed a performance that is becoming to the play and platform. Todd Lee's setting consists of levels, shapes and areas that culminate in a round peak against a glowing cyclorama; and Walter Benson's lighting plot is superb, indicating the range and richness of the electrical equipment. No doubt it will be years before the staff learns to use the full potential...
Today we have to admit that we don't know what happened. But obviously Shakespeare lacked his familiar energy when he wrote "Troilus and Cressida." It is a long, wordy play without much plot, invention or scope. As a portrait of Shakespeare's mind at one period, it is provocative. As drama, it is dull. That is why it is seldom performed...