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Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America by Stephen E. Kercher, an excerpt (6512 words) |
 | Perhaps the most poignant scenario the Compass Players produced during the summer of 1955 was May’s “Georgina’s First Date.” Unlike the great majority of scenarios and scenes that the Compass and its male-dominated successors performed in the 1950s and early 1960s, this piece focused solely on the experience of a female character. |
| The fact that Compass actors uttered obscenities and the undisguised names of national politicians confirmed that their enterprise was boldly out of step with the rest of 1950s cold war America. |
| Like the alienated, rebellious Compass goys (many of whom emulated and in some cases envied their Jewish colleagues), they were articulate outsiders well poised to observe the follies of America’s middle class and the shallow promises of the American Way. |
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compass - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about compass (280 words) |
| By the 12th century, European navigators were using compasses consisting of a needle-shaped magnet floating in a bowl of water. |
| The most commonly used is a magnetic compass, consisting of a thin piece of magnetic material with the north-seeking pole indicated, free to rotate on a pivot and mounted on a compass card on which the points of the compass are marked. |
| Compasses not dependent on the magnet are gyrocompasses, dependent on the gyroscope, and radiocompasses, dependent on the use of radio. |
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