Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some of the other characters are well adjusted. Hank has made a very serious commitment in leaving his wife for Larry. And Harold [the freaky birthday boy] is very well adjusted to his homosexuality: he knows his neuroses and lives with them. I'm not saying that Harold's way is the healthiest way of life, but at least he's not in the dark about himself. Michael is a conflicted character. He doesn't know what he wants, and still hangs on to vestiges of his childhood-like the church and its teaching that homosexuality...
...mystery in Boys. of course, is the character of Alan. Michael's straight friend from Georgetown days, who shows up unexpectedly at the birthday party Michael is throwing for his homosexual friends. Michael hopes that Alan is actually a "closet queer," so that his own guilt at being a homosexual will not be as strong...
Last Saturday, March 21, was Bach's birthday, and Cambridge streamed into Mem Church to pay tribute. As in the opening scene of Notre Dame de Paris...
...lawgiver is unknown, but the saying is an old joke among engineers. * John Dos Passes, in U.S.A., wrote an epitaph for Taylor: "On the morning of his fiftyninth birthday, when the nurse went into his room to look at him at fourthirty, he was dead with his watch in his hand...
...composition. She writes small scenarios, small in the sense that their limited worlds are closed off from the usual psychosocial references: small also in that they act out philosophical truths through seemingly banal confrontations. The Report is on a small group of guests who have been invited to a birthday party in honor of some mysterious official. On the way they are captured by the official's adopted son, Philip, and his boys, who force them to play commandante/captive games. The thoroughly bourgeois guests ("I like nice, well-cared for things," one says) choose to be submissive, though they promise...