Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...thing is preposterous. "All the world knows," says he, "that the intellect does not stop at 65. Why, the best work of Benjamin Franklin, Jefferson, Voltaire, Goethe and Sophocles was done long after!" Last winter, white-thatched Alvin Johnson persuaded his New School successor, Hans Simons, to let him set up a faculty within a faculty of retired professors...
...Feldman have welded the play's fragments into a literal, realistic continuity, with only a gesture or two in the direction of the original atmosphere. As a result, the story's poignancy and humor are all but swallowed up in a drab, tedious film that even a set of good characterizations cannot redeem...
...Newcombe, the Brooklyn pitcher, matched Roberts until the fatal tenth when he allowed singles by Roberts and Waitkns. These, followed by Ashburn's unsuccessful sacrifice, set the stage for Sisler's winning blow...
Pitcher Robin Roberts set the Brooks down in five hits and turned in a masterful job of clutch pitching in the ninth when he stopped the Dogers without a run after loading the bases. Earlier in the inning, he was aided by a great throw by centerfield Richie Asbhurn who cut down Cal Abrams at the plate, as the latter attempted to score the game-winning run from second on Duke Snider's single...
Weiss, Jim Johnson, and Captain Ted Wolf set up several fine scoring thrusts which would have run up the score but for the fine defensive play of Thompson, Tufts sophomore center halfback and candidate for All-American honors...