Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...torn by factions. Last week, after 1,120,000 votes swept a Democrat into every available job for the first time in almost a quarter of a century, the leaders of both parties agreed on the main cause: the iron-spun coattails of Michigan's maturing (46) boy wonder, Governor G. (for Gerhard) Mennen Williams...
Cradle of Christianity? Since a Bedouin shepherd boy named Muhammad adh-Dhib ("The Wolf") first stumbled on them just ten years ago in a cave near Qumran (he had hoped to find buried treasure), the scrolls have stirred up perhaps the most vigorous debate in Christianity since Darwin. One faction, headed by French Orientalist André Dupont-Sommer (whose views were popularized in the U.S. by Amateur Scrollman Edmund Wilson), held that the Dead Sea Community more than Bethlehem might have been the cradle of Christianity. Philologist John Allegro of Britain's University of Manchester strongly implied that...
...story which the opera tells so effectively concerns a fake spiritualist, her young daughter, and a mute boy who acts as their helper in the phony seances. During one such session, the medium discovers to her horror that she does indeed possess supernatural powers. But since she is unable to face the fact she fixes on the boy, blames him for tricking her, and drives him away. He, however, returns unseen, with inevitable tragic results...
...part of the mute boy, Toby, was written for a performer who must combine the abilities of dancer and mime. Eugene Gervasi distinguishes himself in both capacities. He quite brilliantly manages to make his body and hands express the boy's desperate eagerness to speak, and, what is perhaps more difficult, project his love for the medium's daughter...
Perhaps more than any other American author of stature, Wolfe seemed to feel a complex love for and desire to express the spirit and meaning of America, and particularily the part from which he came. He never seemed to have escaped boy at heart (who p the attitude that he was just a small-town boy at heart (who just happened to read Joyce on the side, as well as Greek, Latin, French, and German) being taken advantage of by wily city slickers. But his real sensitivity and concern for the land itself--although one may disagree with his views...