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...Should Beth die in the upcoming LB one-hour musical version of Little Women? "Absolutely not," said Composer-Lyricist Richard Adler. When Louisa May Alcott finished the last paragraph of her classic he said, Beth was still breathing. Her creator, Adler argued, killed Beth m the book's sequel, Little Women, Part II. Come October, Beth (played by Margaret O'Brien) will live...
Other-Directed Moppets. In a field that is paced by Daniel Defoe and the brothers Grimm. Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, J. M. Barrie and Louisa May Alcott, Kenneth Grahame and Beatrix Cotter, how good is the current output? In a sense, each generation reveals itself by what it finds in its children's books. Said...
Cotton Mather said: "This town of Boston is become almost a Hell upon Earth, a City full of Lies and Murders and Blasphemies; a dismal Picture and Emblem of Hell. Satan seems to take a strange possession of it." But Bronson Alcott later observed: "There is a city in our world upon which the light of the sun of righteousness has risen. It is the same city from which every pure stream of thought and purpose and performance emanates. It is the city which is set on high. It cannot be hidden. It is Boston...
Cotton Mather said: "This town of Boston is become almost a Hell upon Earth, a City full of Lies and Murders and Blasphemies; a dismal Picture and Emblem of Hell. Satan seems to take a strange possession of it." But Bronson Alcott later observed: "There is a city in our world upon which the light of the sun of righteousness has risen. It is the same city from which every pure stream of thought and purpose and performance emanates. It is the city which is set on high. It cannot be hidden. It is Boston...
Many of the city's oldest schools, they found, are still in use: Hawes Hall, South Boston, built in 1823; Lyceum Hall, Dorchester, 1839; Hobart School, Brighton, 1844; Alcott School, South End, 1847; Old Agassiz School, Jamaica Plain, 1834; and the Dwight and Franklin Schools, both South End, and Prescott School, Charlestown, all constructed...