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...including even a reference to Whitsunday. Hermione claims her father was Emperor of Russia, when there was then no such thing. A famous 16th-century Italian sculptor is cited by name. Shakespeare confused the oracle of Apollo at Delphi with the one on the island of Deios, and provided Bohemia with a seacoast it has never enjoyed. On top of that, the dramatist dared to jump 16 years between the third and fourth acts...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Leontes Damages The Winter's Tale' | 8/5/1975 | See Source »

...having discovered two skeletons in his father's closet. And the story, with its pivotal heroine, its deferentially anonymous references to European nobility, its global crisis in the offing, and even its fixation on the "points" of a railroad track, emerges as a hybrid of "A Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Adventure of the Bruce Partington Plans" and "The Adventure of the Second Stain...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: The Adventure of the Addled Amanuensis | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

...STREETS of Cambridge, outside the gates of Harvard Yard and its stately monuments like Emerson and University halls, lurk the spirits of Harvard's other culture. Once the heroes of a more feisty crew of students, these refugees from Bohemia stand as reminders of an alternatives approach to the Harvard education. Among the bars and cafes and magazine Kiosks shuffle the likes of Richard Henry Dana, one of the first of many undergraduates to exercise the option of the leaves of absence, by departing after his second year to spend two years before the mast and see the world. There...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Don Juan in Law School | 10/17/1974 | See Source »

...production's overall atmosphere, neither tragic nor pastoral, settles somewhere in the netherworld of the mundane. A fairly simple set is not quite bare enough to avoid being distractingly eclectic. Nice touches, such as burning torches in the king's chambers and a flower-bedecked arbor in Bohemia, are offset by haphazard positioning of the settings and the action. The climactic resurrection of Hermione is blunted by clumsy staging. Though occasional flute passages are delightful, the music is generally sloppy...

Author: By Elizabeth Samuels, | Title: Sad Tale for Winter | 12/8/1973 | See Source »

When Willa was eight, her family moved from Virginia to Nebraska. She considered those early years in the newly settled state the most important of her life. In 1880, Nebraska was still a pioneer society. Most people lived in sod houses. So many settlers from Scandinavia and Bohemia were arriving that Willa could go for days without hearing English spoken outside her house. She was wildly excited. To her, the prairie grass looked as if it were running; it seemed possible to hear the corn growing in the summer night. In the next eleven years, the frontier was to vanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Sod | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

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