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...Princeton, victors over the Crimson in last week's Big Three meet, was considered beatable, and Harvard had already defeated Dartmouth in a dual meet earlier in the fall. So while no one on the Crimson squad was really surprised to see the Heptagonal title slip away, sixth place was equally unforeseen...
...content running a small place with a steady profit and with hearing the confessions of his regulars, but he ends his speech with a quiet despair disguised as complacency: "I'll die in the night and I hope it don't wake me up, that I just slip away, quietly." Something is drastically wrong with the whole fabric of society; the bar's one contact with the outside world all evening comes when the doctor goes to deliver a dead baby in a trailer cord. He allows the mother to hemorrhage to death...
There is a wealth of low-key truths lurking in Furth's play--for here, unlike in a Simon comedy, you don't see the gags being cranked out and tossed at you; the revelations instead seem to slip out as if by mistake--which Sada Thompson manages beautifully. Her characterizations are triumphs of inflection. You never for a minute doubt that her women are all relatives under the skin, yet there is never any danger of the four characters melting into one. All the men involved--particularly Oakland, Bain and Haines--approach their roles with a similar respect...
...cases, he shows he has the ability deftly to pull off an elaborate visual joke, but mostly he simply allows his actors to sit and talk, a jarringly natural kind of talk that can be rivetting in its lack of pretense. Furth does manage to slip in one or two aphorisms, but generally he wisely settles for just those chuckles of recognition this cast is skilled at eliciting...
...give the president of the university any assurance that the disappearance did not involve foul play, but an FBI agent, acting on his own, told a CIA employee that it did not. The CIA man passed on the message -no foul play-to the president, who then let it slip to the press. Hoover was furious. Because of that fairly obscure incident, he has limited most FBI contacts with the CIA since then to written and telephone messages and occasional direct meetings that he specifically approves...