Word: courtships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away from the plays altogether. The selections are drawn from letters, essays, critiques and talks on the BBC, plus a frail, touching, ninetyish farewell to all on British TV. The evening moves chronologically from Shaw's arrival in London and includes reminiscences of his early family life, his courtship of Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a millionairess, his epistolary romancing of Ellen Terry, the famed actress, and his meeting with Isadora Duncan at which, to his acute distress, she propositioned...
...lecture tomorrow at the Harvard Med School will give you a great chance to brush up on bestiality at a seminar on "Courtship Behavior in Different Species," featuring Dr. Antonio Asturias, Professor of Sex Education (no lie), at the U. of San Carlos, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Go to 45 Shattuck St. and moon a monkey...
...George is concerned, these ventures are like trips on the Andrea Doria. Then a simple misunderstanding puts him in touch with the recently divorced Jennie Malone (Anita Gillette). The deftness, charm and earned intimacy of the pair's telephonic courtship would put Simon in a playwrights' hall of fame if one existed. George and Jennie meet, and love blooms at first sight, a sight for glad eyes since Gillette is an actress of such beguiling, womanly warmth that glaciers would melt at her approach...
...gulls for five years on Santa Barbara Island, an uninhabited rock about 40 miles from Los Angeles. Seven of eight female pairs that were trapped and marked by the researchers in 1975 were still together in 1976. In all of these pairs, one of the females adopted some male courtship and territorial behavior. In three cases, a female attempted to mount and copulate with her female mate...
...Schwartz's achievement limited to verse. The title work was a brilliant short story whose narrator witnessed the past courtship of his mother and father, interrupting with cries of "Don't do it! It's not too late ..." No less a judge than Vladimir Nabokov placed this tale -written when Schwartz was only 21 -among his "half a dozen favorites in modern literature...