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	Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America by Stephen E. Kercher, an excerpt
		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.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/431649.html (6512 words)

	compass - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about compass
		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.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /compass (280 words)

	Another Shot for Smith, COMPASS provides direction - Boston Herald 1994 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Perceptions are difficult to overcome at Compass, both on the basketball court and in the classroom.
		While the emphasis at Compass clearly is not on basketball, the simple fact remains that were it not for Martin and the game, Smith probably would not be in school at all.
		To maintain their eligibility, the players on his team are subjected to weekly reviews in which they must reach certain standards of academics and behavior.
	www.compassinc.com /heraldmartin.html (1305 words)

	Forgotten Futures Adventure 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Players may wish to keep careful track of the time as they proceed, assuming that every second is vital; the drawback is that it is easy to waste enough time to make it physically impossible for the adventurers to intercept the members of SOMD.
		Players will probably wish to trap the hijackers before they take off, but they are nearly ready to leave, and something (such as the belated arrival of the local police) should alert them before the adventurers can block their escape.
		Players should be reminded that their 'dig is (presumably) not equipped for combat; it probably carries a pithing iron, but is unlikely to be armed, armoured or built to ram.
	www.forgottenfutures.com /game/ff1/advent1.htm (15649 words)

	compass players (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Second City is a long-running improvisational comedy troupe based in the Old Town area of Chicago, Illinois, with offshoot troupes in other cities, most notably Toronto.
		Second City evolved from the Compass Players, a 1950s cabaret-style revue show.
		In the late 1970s Second City Chicago became a source of players for the "Saturday Night Live" television show, which borrowed many of the writing and performing techniques pioneered by Second City and other improv groups.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Compass_Players.html (319 words)

	Around the World in Eighty Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The players travel around an attractive board, trying to be the first to return to London (having circumnavigated the globe).
		In their turn a player may either pick up additional cards, or move by playing cards of the type currently indicated by the compass.
		Players therefore attempt to maximise their turn by using the first form of transport, landing on spaces which allow the move to continue, and changing the wind compass to suit their hand.
	www.gamecabinet.com /sumo/Issue12/Around.html (532 words)

	Compass Treasure Hunt
		Clues leading to the treasure are given only as compass bearings, and the distance in steps to the next clue.
		One player is given a note with a compass course and a distance, measured in steps.
		Now hold the compass in front of your face and look to the hiding spot, then look down to the compass and read the "degrees" which point to the spot.
	www.eartheasy.com /play_compass_treashunt.htm (649 words)

	Scouting Ireland - Scouts in Ireland
		players, place eight or 16 markers at compass points on the circle.
		The leader stands in the middle of the circle with a broomstick held upright with one end on the ground.
		Allow players a few seconds to figure out where they are.
	www.scouts.ie /?Page=viewgame.php&GameNO=43 (145 words)

	New Actors Workshop
		Employing games could more easily bring the player (or actor) into the “space” (the stage and the “moment”) and out of his or her own prohibitive head - games would serve as a gateway to “playing” rather than acting.
		She wrote, “When response to experience takes place at this intuitive level, when a person functions beyond a constricted intellectual plane, his intelligence is freed.” In addition to being used by actors and directors, the Spolin games have been used by teachers in other fields who find the games remarkably effective in solving pedagogical problems.
		They established the Compass Players, the first improvisational theater company in the United States, in the University of Chicago vicinity in 1955.
	www.newactorsworkshop.com /2city.htm (1575 words)

	Improvisational Theater
		Set up in a Hyde Park bar, just blocks from the spot where Enrico Fermi first split the atom, the Compass Players' experiments with improvisation opened a nearly limitless source of creative energy that continues to fuel every level of the American entertainment industry—television to theater, cabaret to commercials to film.
		Short skits not only supplanted scenario plays at the Compass but throughout the entire improvisational movement as it developed over the next 35 years.
		Led by Del Close—a Compass alumnus who taught at Chicago's ImprovOlympic and epitomized the mystical (as opposed to pragmatic) strain in Chicago-style improvisation—many younger performers have carried out ambitious experiments with so-called “long form” structures.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/631.html (775 words)

	The Spolin Center - Spolin Players on Broadway
		Inspired by the creative and spiritual influence of the legendary pioneer of improvisation, VIOLA SPOLIN, this company of players is an eclectic mixture of Seattle actors, writers, musicians and directors.
		Such famous companies as Second City, Story Theater, Compass Players, Sills and Company, War Babies, The Groundlings, The Committee, and, literally hundreds of other groups all across North America all owe their birthrights to Viola Spolin's technique, while the drama departments at universities and high schools everywhere include her books in their curricula.
		The Spolin Players are proud of their heritage and determined to carry the improvisational torch aloft into the 21st century, so that yet another generation may enjoy spontaneous play, laughter, and a two-drink minimum.
	www.spolin.com /preskit2.html (334 words)

	Everything points to fun at Compass event
		The place was a Hyde Park bar near the University of Chicago campus that no longer exists.
		The event was the birth of The Compass Players, the improvisational troupe that was the forerunner of The Second City and, by extension, "Saturday Night Live" and much more.
		In November, Pitts also is hoping to stage the near impossible -- a reunion of all the surviving original Compass Players, including Shepherd, Sills, Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Barbara Harris, Alan Alda, Alan Arkin, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara and Shelley Berman.
	www.suntimes.com /output/weiss/wkp-news-compass01.html (121 words)

	Improv Miami - Comedy / Entertainment Guide / South Florida Theater
		The Compass Players combined sketch comedy developed from improvisation and live improv into an easily accessible format that all audiences could enjoy.
		The Compass Players spawned of some of the most influential comedy of its generation.
		Compass Players have included: Alan Alda, Ed Asner, Del Close, Valerie Harper, Linda Lavin, Ron Liebman, Elaine May, Paul Mazursky, Anne Meara, Mike Nichols, Paul Sills, Jerry Stiller and Viola Spolin.
	www.improvmiami.com /improv_history.htm (1044 words)

	Compass Definition Rose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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		Compass Rose 1 Compass Rose 2 Compass Rose 3 Compass Rose 4 Compass Rose 5 Compass Rose 6 Compass Rose 7 Compass Rose...
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	www.maxiflora.co.uk /flowers/compass-definition-rose.html (600 words)

	Second City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Second City is a long-running improvisational comedy troupe based in the Old Town area of Chicago, Illinois, with offshoot troupes in other cities, mostnotably Toronto.
		Second City evolved from the Compass Players, a 1950s cabaret-style revueshow.
		In the late 1970s Second City Chicago became a source of players for the " Saturday Night Live " television show, which borrowed many of the writing and performing techniquespioneered by Second City and other improv groups.
	www.therfcc.org /second-city-56765.html (495 words)

	Ruth L Ratny presents REEL CHICAGO \| Welcome
		This year marks the 50th anniversary of Chicago improv that had its genesis in the legendary Compass Players, which in turn spawned The Second City.
		In 1955, University of Chicago alums Paul Sills and David Shepherd founded the pioneering comedy of the Compass Players in a converted storefront cabaret theatre near the U of C. The first Second City revue show premiered in 1959.
		He was the first director of the Compass Players and Second City.
	www.reelchicago.com /archive.cfm?storyID=839 (503 words)

	Compass Church - Athens Church - The Compass Ministries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The backbone of Compass Community Church is the various ministries we have to offer you and your family. Compass is focused on growing smaller through small groups and ministries as we grow larger as a church. Below are some of the ministries we currently offer at Compass...
		Connection Groups - Our connection groups are the heartbeat of Compass. Throughout the week, we have small groups meeting in homes throughout Northeast Georgia. Call us to find a connection group near you.
		Compass Kids - Compass Kids are a priority. Every Sunday, you can be assured that your child is left in a warm and caring environment while you attend the worship services. The Compass Kids are from birth through 1st grade.
	www.compasschurch.com /modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=4 (284 words)

	The King of Queens on CBS
		Stiller has long been known as half of the husband-and-wife comedy team Stiller and Meara.
		He and his wife, Anne Meara, were part of the improvisational group the Compass Players, which later became Second City.
		Stiller and Meara have played every major nightclub in the United States and appeared on CBS's "The Ed Sullivan Show" 36 times.
	www.cbs.com /primetime/king_of_queens/bios/jerry_stiller_bio.shtml (358 words)

	YESand.com \| Store
		The Compass began in a storefront theater near the University of Chicago campus in the summer of 1955 and lasted only a few years before its players--including David Shepherd, Paul Sills, Elaine May, Mike Nichols, Barbara Harris, and Shelley Berman--moved on.
		Jeff Griggs gives the reader the essentials of Close's biography: his childhood in Kansas, early years as an actor, countercultural exploits in the 1960's, years with the Compass Players and then with Second City, experimentation with every drug imaginable, which cost him his health and ultimately his life.
		A brilliant look at the history of Chicago-based improvisation from the Compass and Second City to the present and beyond with a particular focus on the shifting in gender and race issues within the form.
	www.yesand.com /resources/bookstore/?PHPSESSID=75bc66f76f6d6be0885a5c8f3e63f993 (1946 words)

	GPS Compass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Garmin GPSMAP76CS Marine Handheld GPS with Compass and - Garmin GPSMAP76CS Marine Handheld GPS with Compass and The GPS Devices Collection discount store.com is...
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	www.qsound.ca /243.html (523 words)

	Del Close (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Del Close, who died in 1999, dedicated most of his life to Improv.
		In 1957 he became part of the Compass players, a troupe that evolved into Second City, and he is considered as one of the world's Improv Guru's.
		Del Close is the inventor of the Harold - a long format that is wildly popular in the US.
	www.humanpingpongball.com /Del_Close.html (85 words)

	Liquid Compass - Powering Internet Radio
		Liquid Compass provides streaming and interactive media solutions developed specifically for the radio industry that are focused on building radio stations’ audiences (and revenue) by extending their terrestrial signal and branding initiatives to a live streaming broadcast and interactive website.
		This is accomplished through a combination of uniquely designed media players, the radio industry’s most powerful ad replacement software*, streaming sales package development and training, and lastly, websites that integrate a station’s new streaming initiative to develop a powerful revenue generating tool!
		Starting as low as $250 per month, Liquid Compass can provide your radio station with a unique interactive website that will allow you to grow your online audience and attract potential advertisers.
	www.liquidcompass.net (291 words)

	Alan Alda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Alan Alda (born January 28, 1936) is an American actor, writer, director and sometime political activist.
		He began his career in the 1950's as a member of the Compass Players comedy revue.
		He is most famous for his role of Hawkeye Pierce in the television series MAS*H.
	www.portaljuice.com /alan_alda.html (165 words)

	Dictionary compass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		, ambit -- an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power"
		, range, reach, grasp -- the limit of capability; "within the compass of education"
		-- travel around, either by plane or ship; "We compassed the earth"
	www.dictionarydefinition.net /compass.html (117 words)

	Who Is Paul Sills at the Wisconsin Theater Game Center?
		Sills helped change the very nature of theater and what we know as comedy by teaching techniques of improvisation formulated by his mother, Viola Spolin.
		Her experiments were widely praised in the Chicago press and Studs Terkel, the writer and radio personality, recorded one of the shows for his radio audience.
		Paul Sand, a Second City alumnus, would later provide the title of Jeffrey Sweet's book when he said of Sills, "all he wants is something wonderful right away." Sills, who often refers to his work as "side-coaching," once told The New York Times, "There is no technique.
	www.paulsills.com /doc_stavru.htm (1636 words)

	Teddy Ramblings :: My Compass, Your Light :: MP3 Players
		Stealing a teddybear is the equivalent of abduction of a teddybear.
		Change that into ringgit, I'll be needing around RM1000 to buy either one of them.
		Sigh...guess I'll just have to keep on dreaming about those MP3 players.
	redphayze.theuseless.com /archives/002351.html (69 words)

	Full Compass - Audio, Video and Lighting equipment for all your AV needs
		This fun mobile guitar trainer includes enough memory to store up to 240 songs.
		Provides tone and effects processing for the next generation so you can be the player you want to be.
		Unique and versatile musical instrument that takes the best software- based synthesizers and effects processors available, and turns them into real instruments.
	www.fullcompass.com (425 words)

	Something Wonderful Right Away: An Oral History of the Second City and The Compass Players (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jeffs review may be self serving, but so is mine - my dad, the late Bill Alton, is interviewed in the book.
		Started in the mid-50s as the Compass Players, it transformed into Second City in 1959 and has been going strong ever since, even opening sister theatres in Toronto and Detroit.
		The Compass : The Improvisational Theatre that Revolutionized American Comedy (Centennial Publications of The University of Chicago Press)
	www.edu-books.com /Something_Wonderful_Right_Away_An_Oral_History_of_the_Second_City_and_The_Compass_Players_0879100737.html (532 words)

	Classes - Studio Z - Multimedia Improvisation
		Commedia dell'Arte is an Italian comedy theater form dating back to the 16th century.
		This Italian style of improvisational theatre is a precursor to Chicago-style improvisation and has inspired such Chicago troupes as The Compass Players and The Second City.
		This Master Class will involve a thorough exploration of the masks, character and style of Commedia dell'Arte.
	www.studioz.org /classes.html (261 words)

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