Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boy seeks girl, is rejected. Act Two: Girl seeks boy, is accepted. Act Three: They part. Such is the basis of Love's Comedy by Henrik Ibsen, the 50th anniversary of whose death the Tufts Arena commemorates in this sixth and final production of its current season...
...stomach ache--like a boy...
Wieland's mother Winifred complained: The daughter-in-law of Richard Wagner, who herself directed at Bayreuth in Hitler's time and is now barred from the festival as an ex-Nazi, said of her son: "He's such a gifted boy and knows so much about opera. It's a pity he couldn't produce some other operas and leave his grandfather's alone...
...these and other reasons, Niarchos is distrusted by oldtime shipowners, sneered at as an "uptown boy," i.e., a landlubber who doesn't know his fantail from a fo'c'sle. Though he seldom sets foot aboard a tanker, Niarchos retorts angrily that he is far more concerned with his fleet than his fortune...
...Seven Sleepers. Editor Attwater has happily spared the shears on some of the best stories in Christian tradition, though modern scholarship and/or common sense deny them corroboration. One such is the legend of St. Marina, whom her father disguised as a boy and took to the monastery with him when he became a monk. In due course Marina, too, became a monk, and was accused of getting a local innkeeper's daughter with child. Dismissed from the monastery to live as a beggar at its gates, Marina uttered not a word in self-defense. Only when she died...