Word: bolton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judges awarded two third prizes, one to Edward two third prizes, one to Edward Ochester, and one to Conrad Geller. Geller is head of the English department at Nashoba High School in Bolton Mass. and is a member of the English Institute for High School Teachers at the Summer School. Geller is a graduate of Harvard College and received his Ed. M. from Fitchburg State Teachers College...
...Professor Barzun's stiffish translation and livening it up with sparks of "business" of which Courteline would have approved, I am sure. As Andre, the lover in Boubouroche, he is finesse personified, a sort of David Niven almost turned fop, with balletic precision in every mannered gesture. George Bolton comes over well, in Article 330, as the dogmatic embodiment of La Brige's constant antagonist, the Law; and as the Old Gentleman who informs Boubouroche of his long-standing cuckoldry, he is properly precious. Adele, the beautiful deceiver who reduces Boubouroche to grovelling prostration, is played by Penny Hays, mistress...
...Dandin (which Moliere himself played, and whose name has become a generic term for a nincompoop), George Bolton is sufficiently successful. His un-stage-English accent is appropriate for one who is supposed to be incapable of acquiring even a veneer of upper-class manner and speech. But he does not capture enough of Dandin's vanity. The role is modeled on the stock Pantalone of Italian comedy, and Bolton wears Pantalone's traditional long beard and long black cloak...
Then there are Dandin's snobbish in-laws, M. and Mine, Sotenville--who are indeed, as their name suggests, the town fools. Dixie Bolton puts over much of Madame's vanity and prudery; but most impressive of all is her outrageous costume: a blue and green gown, with a hat adorned by yellow, pink and blue plumes, and a black...
...England's Black and Tans, the rebellion bred more than enough heroes and martyrs to fill all the pedestals that remained when the Irish finished dynamiting English statuary. It boasted as many wits and eccentrics, from the unknown patriot who dubbed Queen Victoria "The Famine Queen," to Robert Bolton, who escaped from Dublin's Mount joy Prison after leaving a note explaining politely that the accommodations were below his accustomed standard...