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...three pieces which intrigues me is by a Wellesley sophomore, Carol Bosworth. What to call the article is the problem. She terms it "didactic effusions," which would put anybody off. It is really an extended reminiscence, punctuated with a sometimes, bitter, sometimes wise, philosophical narrative. With a good ear for dialogue--and dialect--and a sharp eye for detail, Miss Bosworth successfully evokes her childhood and early religious training. The interwoven commentary is equally precise, chopping up the "effusions" with such pungencies as "Jews are made and not born...
Miracle of the White Stallions. "My kingdom for a horse!" cried Richard III at Bosworth Field. He probably meant a Spanish horse. Some of the finest war horses of the Renaissance were derived from a mixture of Spanish and Arab stock, and in 1565 Maximilian II of Austria made military news of some magnitude when he imported a string of steel-white Spanish steeds to his estate at Lipizza. In 1735 the Spanish Riding School was established in Vienna to train the finest Lipizzan stallions in the classic battle tactics devised by a French riding master named Antoine Pluvinel. Bonapartes...
...FRITZ BOSWORTH Atascadero, Calif...
...kind of guy who knows everything except when to shut up. He finishes his mother-in-law's Double-Crostic, his father-in-law's sentences and the neighbors' bridge bids-in short, the perfect quiz contestant. But when his sister-in-law (Patricia Bosworth) helps con him into going on a quiz show, he refuses $96,000 after he discovers that his opponent has got a fast shuffle. All this drew exactly 262 laughs one evening in Boston. Until curtain time in New York this week, where Howie opens the season, all hands were working...
...whom understandably enough wants to leave home, and the younger who does so by marrying a Mexican. The hard, bright manner of Elaine Stritch in the role of the elder daughter provided the only relief throughout an evening otherwise drowned in sentimental goo. As for the performances of Patricia Bosworth, the second Muldoon offspring, and Gerald Sarracini, the Mexican bridegroom, they are workmanlike but nothing more...