Word: courtships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Troubadours & Puritans. Courting is not always immediately recognizable as such, but there is no doubt that the art has had its ups and downs. In ancient Greece, wives were mere childbearers, purchased from their fathers; only courtesans and homosexuals knew the joys of courtship. In the later Roman Empire, courting seems to have been simply the "pursuit of the other man's wife, conducted as a sport." Though St. Jerome complains that the 4th-century minx had some shockers up her sleeve ("Her upper garment sometimes falls ... to show her naked shoulders, and as if she would...
Presenting The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro on successive evenings not only gives the New England Opera Theater a repertoire of two standard works, it enables audiences to follow Beaumarchais' drama from the Count's frivolous courtship of Rosina through their tragi-comic marriage. Rossini's music for the first play perfectly reflects its brittle stylized comedy. And the score of Mozart's "sequel" (actually written thirty years earlier) given to the older characters an almost bitter-sweet maturity...
...Courtship. In Roanoke, Va., Charles Lee Dickerson, 71, made up his mind at last, married Mrs. Martha Shelton, 70, whose father had frightened him into breaking off their engagement 52 years...
...screams later, their sleigh is racing back to the farm with a baggage of "Sobbin' Women" aboard and a tumult of raging fathers behind. The brothers shout down an avalanche of snow behind them, blocking pursuit until spring, and barrel away home to a long winter's courtship...
Thus far, Mr. Peepers has concentrated on the minor problems of a high-school science teacher, played to awkward, heart-warming perfection by Wally Cox, who has spent as much time with eccentric friends and co-workers as he has on his sexless courtship of School Nurse Benoit. But even in television, things are bound to be different after a man gets married...