Word: dido
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...object to the entirely unsupported assertion that the Council's effectiveness has been "strangled" this year Council reports have already affected freshman advising and spring break meal plans, to name but two topics. Council-administered grants funds during this semester alone have supported everything from table tennis to Dido and Aeneas, from the wry humor behind. "Burt Ward-at-Harvard weekend" to the awesome vitality of Citystep. The Council has also been "effective" in bringing R E M., the Sex Execs, the "Yale Taigate," and the "Island Party" to thousands of Harvard students. Perhaps the question of the Council...
...adapted from the professional stage, with costumes and scenery made by students and were performed in the club's room in Holworthy By the 1860s the shows played in Cambridge and Boston, and the scripts began to be exclusively student written. Some became nationally famous, such as 1882's Dido and /Eneas. reputed to be the first musical comedy in America. At this point the scripts also began to assume the pun-filled risque quality of today's shows. The trend culminated in 1915's Bumming in France which had tasteful characters like Ivan E. Rexionne and Willy Cracker...
...notorious love affair with Dido, Queen of Carthage, is arranged by Venus, Aeneas' mother, who simply wants to guarantee her son's physical safety in a potentially hostile land. The goddess did not guess the damage her meddling would cause to Aeneas' reputation. But Fitzgerald's translation makes vivid the sufferings of both Dido and her anointed suitor: "Duty-bound,/ Aeneas, though he struggled with desire/ To calm and comfort her in all her pain." And he, "shaken still/ With love of her, yet took the course heaven gave him/ And went back to the fleet...
GLUBIT: Zounds! Ofeely burk this jesting lamster who doth quilp and quark my Chesterfield? Ha! I do not reck his garf nor het his nausee ambro, swink a bristly sarsaparilla, and blue as dido cucumber. Lunk to it, blanked ordinary...