Word: alack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corral. Instead of "a wood near Athens," Reeve's Dream is set on a Texas ranch in the 1880s, and the guitar-twanging players appear in Stetsons, bandannas and bustles (Hippolyta is an Indian princess in white buckskin). The dialogue is unchanged except by Texas tongues: "O naht! alack, alack, alack! Ah feah mah Thisby's promise is furgot...
...lonely men of Harvard; Alone, alas, alone, alack, are we! And that's the curse we share, It's the cross we've got to bear For our irrefutable superiority...