Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contiguous stories: one-the frilly, mannered tale of Loveless' backsliding-is pure Restoration bawdry; the other-the lusty courtship of a panting, pent-up hoyden-is timeless low comedy. Morally, also, the play faces two ways. It seems utterly callous where Loveless sins with his wife's cousin and house guest; it seems all but Victorian when Loveless' wife not only resists seduction but reduces her would-be seducer to shame...
...Distant cousin of Manhattan Importer Alfred Kohlberg, vigorous, supporter of Chiang Kai-shek...
Just at that point a cousin conveniently died, leaving Fry a small legacy and enabling him to start work on his first important play, The Boy with a Cart, a pageant celebrating the 50th anniversary of a village church, and The Tower, another pageant, on the history of Tewkesbury Abbey. Both plays recalled the manner, if not the grandeur, of T. S. Eliot's religious pageant, The Rock; they also showed a humor and a lyricism that was Fry's own. Eliot himself was impressed by The Tower. Another pageant by Fry, Thursday's Child, was performed...
...Josephine Bryce, own 10% each, as do Mrs. Joseph Mclntosh and Mrs. Marie Robinson, daughters of Marie Louise. Another 20% is owned by Maria Josephine's heirs. * The others: John Hartford, Frank McKelvey (John's brother-in-law), Sheldon Stewart and Herbert Ludlum (their first cousin...
...letter in question, reportedly sent to almost every faculty member, called for the election of Copley Amory, Jr. (a cousin of the professor) to the state senate and A. John Serino, Francis W. Lindstrom, and W. Donnison Swan '17 to the state legislature. It requested the defeat of the Democratic candidates, who "nearly succeeded in eliminating our present form of government (Plan E) at the last legislative session...