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Barefoot has some good scenes and some good writing, but suffers even more from lack of sensibility and of art than from lack of drama. It has snatches of Shavian cleverness jostling scraps of Socratic wisdom and ponderous suggestions of The Private Life of Helen of Troy. A dramatically pointless harlot tags after a comic-strip King of Sparta; and in direct competition with perhaps the most nobly serene death scene in history, Anderson introduces one all his own. Dramatists rightly take liberties; but Drinkwater did not have Lincoln assassinated at Gettysburg, and Shaw refrained from having Joan devoured...
...Quick!" he whispered. "Send the men home at once . . . Tell them anything you want." A few minutes later the unsuspecting workmen were gone, and Heinrich Schliemann, a knife in his hand and a frenzy in his head, was digging gold bangles and diadems out of the foundations of Homeric Troy. Priam's treasure! The words roared in his ears. Staggering up, Schliemann looped a necklace 3,000 years old around the neck of his 20-year-old wife. "Helen!" he breathed...
Crimson hockey players will participate in the first annual R.P.I. Invitational Hockey Tournament in Troy, N.Y., on December 27-29, acting R.P.I. athletic director Paul S. Graham announced today...
...Named after the second brightest star. In Greek mythology, Canopus was the steersman of famed Menelaus, king of Sparta and husband of even more famed Helen of Troy...
Rick Hudner, captain of the 1951 lacrosse team, did not score, but according to Coach Bruce Munro he played "very well" during the North's 12 to 11 victory over the South in their annual game at Troy, N.Y., last Saturday. Over 4,000 spectators witnessed the game at Rennesalaer Polytechnic Institute...