Word: choirboy
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...answer: when it is seen for the second time. To preserve his sense of wonder, he regarded the world with the eyes of Adam. Like those other English riddlers, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear and W.S. Gilbert, Chesterton was childless. Like them, he became his own child, a 300-lb. choirboy reveling in puns and paradox. But between Chesterton and the Victorians there was a profound difference. Traditionally, English eccentrics sought refuge hi nonsense. Chesterton found shelter in sense. His immense output (some 150 books and innumerable articles and poems) evidences a long wrangle with madness -the lunacy...
Sister Marie Despina, 55, a scholarly Notre Dame de Sion* nun whose doctoral research on the subject provided considerable material for the A.J.C. report, says that Spain is by far the worst offender. There the legend of Domingo del Val, a choirboy allegedly crucified in the 13th century by Jews who hated his hymn singing, is still fresh. Sister Despina says that the chorister-patron saint of Spanish choirboys-never existed, and that the first documented reference to him dates only from 1587. Yet the cathedral of Zaragoza, she notes, has a brightly lit chapel to the young saint...
...brief and graceful, often witty memoir of Morris' inner and outer life. The outer life proceeds from a happy childhood in an artistic upper-class Welsh family (he read Huck Finn, cherished animals, and was taught to "wash my hands before tea"), through years as a choirboy at Christ Church College in Oxford, some tune at Lancing, a public school (which James hated), through Oxford and the army (which he enjoyed), as well as work on the Guardian and the Times. (With a touch of male chauvinism, Morris satirizes the liberal Guardian's "stance of suffering superiority, like...
Divorced. Lou Rawls, 39, onetime gospel choirboy whose charcoal-blue ballads, particularly Love Is a Hurtin' Thing, were among the first soul songs to hit the top of the pop charts in the '60s; by Lana Jean Rawls, 31; after twelve years of marriage and two children; in Los Angeles...
...Sherman Adams was a choirboy...