Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Iowa State 21. In rushing and passing, Bright had gained 229 yards in 35 plays (including seven out of eleven pass completions) to bring his total yardage in the nine-game season to an even 2,400. It was an alltime national record. Old record: 2,187 yards, set in 1942 by Georgia's All-America Frank Sinkwich...
...dead set against the "realism" which demands characters who talk and act "like real people." Says he: "The realistic play is not realistic at all, but just a slice off the top of existence. Writing a realistic play is like meeting a human being for the first time. The realist would observe that this is Mr. So-and-So, that he has a beard and an accent and a mole on his face. But the human being is far more peculiar, something that has gone on since the beginning of time, now miraculously summed up in the strange sort...
...Goya acknowledged only three masters: "Nature, Velasquez and Rembrandt." His careful study of all three was made apparent last week in a fine survey of Goya's work staged by a Manhattan gallery. The show also pointed up the strength and poignancy of Goya's feelings, which set him well apart from the mainstream...
...spite of these facts, the voters of Baltimore were invited last week to deny to medical schools the strays in the dog pounds which are doomed to be gassed anyway. The voters were invited also to set up a "humane commission" which, by legal sleight of hand, could have crippled research in the city on any animals...
...such brash young men at England's Cambridge University set out for an assault on cosmology's castle. Fred Hoyle, 22, and Raymond Arthur Lyttleton, 25, of St. John's College, earned their livings (as they still do) by teaching mathematics to Cambridge undergraduates. After hours they planned their campaigns to explain the universe-not just the stars and the galaxies, but the whole vast mechanism, compounded of space and time, of mass and energy, which produces the "objects" seen by telescopes, as well as that oddity, the earth, and its curious inhabitant...