Word: tricks
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Bobby was back shortly, and so was mob rule. He didn't exactly calm the audience when he returned and played the old "throw the crowd your clothes" trick. Off came his white handkerchief-tie, and he tossed it out to the masses. The absence of this item, of course, provided the fans an extra bonus: Bobby's shirt came undone a bit at the top, and Bobby's chest peeked out at the screaming teenies. It wasn't exactly Jim Morrison masturbating for a Florida audience, but it kept these kids happy, to say the least. It would make...
...light must overcome. Too often directors have chosen cheap devices to make a work "relevant" that undercut the universality of appeal that makes a work a classic in the first place. Thus, if a director chooses to make Hamlet an alienated student radical, the audience becomes aware of the trick and the subtleties of Hamlet's character are lost in the shuffle. Hamlet becomes only a student radical, and not, as he is, a man whose very complexity is his greatest appeal...
...just hope it's some sort of in-joke). I'd be convinced this later genre is innately sterile except for a truly charming example Kaplan produced last Spring. At the risk of seeming anal, let me point out that a feature composed of fake postcards ostensibly meant to trick freshmen into sending their radical intentions to various bad guys of the right has the addresses on the wrong side when you flip the page...
...singles since Bill Tilden did it in 1929 at age 36. By winning the women's singles title, Mrs. Margaret Smith Court became the first woman to complete tennis' grand slam-the Australian, French, British and American championships-since Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly turned the trick...
Meanwhile up in Thoreau's, William James '02 (Matthews 41) and Arthur Schiesinger Jr, '38 (Thayer 7) are listening to Oliver Wendell Holmes 1829 (Stoughton 31) tell Horatio Alger 1860 (Holworthy 7) and William Randolph Hearst 1885 (Matthews 46) about the time he played a trick on Wendell Phillips 1831 (Holworthy 24). Not listening are Rush and Pete Seeger '36 (Harvard Union) who are trading songs, and Norman Kingsley Mailer '43 (Grays 11) who sits in a corner writing about...