Word: gwendolyn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farce reaches unbelievable extremes when Lady Bracknell terrorizes the obsequious John Worthing, who had hoped to marry her stylish daughter, Gwendolyn Fairfax (Jacqueline Riggs). As she grills him on his eligibility with questions like "Do you smoke?" his meager replies sound more and more unrealistic--"I'm afraid I do," he squeaks, and she answers dictatorially, "Good--a man should always have an occupation." Worthing says he has no parents and Bracknell responds, "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose both is carelessness." In order to be considered for Miss Fairfax's husband he "must...
...thing smacks of titles, of poets groveling before lords and trying to dress up hereditary idiots in velvet prosody. But perhaps the U.S. should reconsider. At least 17 states now have poets laureate. Most of them are regional talents, often amateurs; a few, like Richard Eberhardt (New Hampshire) and Gwendolyn Brooks (Illinois), are distinguished poets...