Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curtain raiser by Tennessee Williams, This Property is Condemned, is equally well-performed, but the play is merely a minor re-working of the inevitable Williams theme of a woman who lives in a world of illusion. The boy who meets the tawdry heroine on a railroad embankment merely establishes the situation. Limited though it is, the part is well-handled by Walter McGinn. Jane Cronin is entrancing as she delivers this bubble-frail poetic monologue without benefit of scenery. She provides an object-lesson in good acting...
...told, never to question or complain. When he was 15, a teacher noted: "Mayo does good work in school. Reads well and understands. Is doing long division and fractions. In drawing does quick and artistic work. Plays first violin in the orchestra." Though his mother visited the boy occasionally, it never occurred to her that he ought to leave the school. Neither did it occur to his brother and sister, though he corresponded with them fluently...
...pretty little boy with the shiny blond bangs sank to his knees beside the bed, cupped his pudgy hands and prayed for just about everyone in the Lassie kennel; then he caught himself. "Excuse me, God," he said. "I forgot something. God bless my new mother and father...
...Boy. In his virtues, vices, boasts, buffooneries, lies and loves, Rivera was always flamboyant and noisy. Often he seemed only a big boy, but that was deceptive. And for the thousands of fellow Mexicans who referred to him affectionately as Diego, there were more thousands who called him Maestro. The second group honored Rivera's art-uneven, grandiose, and yet perhaps the most impressive body of painting ever produced by one man in the New World...
...decides to quit the service. On top of that, the sergeant, who is a line chief, has the satisfaction of doing a job that is vital to his country's survival, and on top of that he has the pleasure of rigging the craziest kite a grown-up boy ever had: the $9,000,000, 400,000-lb., eight-jet, 650-m.p.h...