Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What saves the play from such flaws is the peculiar power of Sacco and Vanzetti themselves, as it emerges from the broken but hauntingly eloquent English of their speeches, letters and diaries. In superb performances. Actors Martin Balsam (Sacco) and Steven Hill (Vanzetti) capture a strange mixture of gentleness and violence, a quality of patience and bewilderment in an alien, hostile world. One of the truly moving scenes seen on TV shows the two men in death cells, writing their last letters. There are Sacco's farewell words to his son: "And you will also not forget to love...
...that have since become standard; of lung cancer; in Victoria, B.C. In 1928, as a 44-year-old coach, Patrick provided one of hockey's most memorable moments when he replaced an injured goalie, worked the nets for the first time in his life, saved a Stanley Cup play-off game for the New York Rangers...
...from Yale in 1931, he got a start as a $100-a-month clerk in the office of William L. Mellon, then head of Gulf Oil Corp. Showing budding financial genius, Evans rented Gulf stock from Mellon at 3% interest, used the stock as collateral to borrow money to play the market. His profits he plowed back into Gulf stock, used his returns to buy into H. K. Porter, a faltering manufacturer of steam locomotives. By 1939 Porter was forced into bankruptcy, and Evans became president when it was reorganized...
Guided Tours. Conducted tours run as low as $587 for an eight-day, seven-country trip. There are special tours for bachelors (lots of nightclubs), theater buffs (1960 is the year for the Oberammergau Passion Play), stamp collectors (London's International Exhibition in July), golfers (following the tournaments and playing the best courses in the British Isles). For James Joyce fans, it is even possible to be conducted on a lurch through Dublin in the steps of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, taking two hours or two days, depending on how many "balls of malt" (Irish whisky) are downed...
...three ways: it offered audiences individual transistor radios to hear about what was happening on the stage, it permitted curtain calls, and it cut its usual five-hour performances to three. On its opening bill were an adaptation of a classic 15th-century No drama, a doll or puppet play, and a work of late 19th-century "realism." Whatever their genre, all three are some times elaborately, sometimes delicately stylized, even to their high-pitched speech; far from merely accepting stage artifices, they glory in them and glorify them. The result is often a triumph of manner. The actor does...