Word: lad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Narrated by many of the play's characters--most notably the clear-eyed, ironic Scholar Wu, who wanders around in portable stocks with a sign that says "Drunkard" draped around his neck--this is the tale of a decent, confused lad, whose body is "a tent of exile" from society. Scolded by his mother for his idleness. Aladdin is dispatched by a wicked magician to an enchanted cave, where he is to fetch a magic lamp. Aladdin winds up hanging onto the lamp, using its genie to help win the hand of a Sultan's beautiful daughter. The magician...
...sixth day of captivity, I was questioned again, in yet another Islamic Guard center. A lightly bearded lad, about 22, tried to interrogate me above the babble of noise as minor government officials shouted their need for more gasoline coupons, newspaper vendors protested that they sold only Islamic papers, two men arrested for fighting resumed their fight, and a hysterical couple wailed that their daughter was missing. The setting was appropriate for the curious questioning that began: "Why have you been arrested...
...thoughtfulness about personal situations and an unaffected directness in talking with "little people." On the same day that she has purposely discomfited a minister, she will stop and have a cup of tea with the Downing Street switchboard operators. At a recent Tory conference, a 15-year-old lad made a speech that was a great success. When he was brought to meet the Prime Minister, she first asked if he had called his mother to tell her how the speech went. When he said no, she fished out a tenpence coin from her purse and sent...
...Erickson was a highly impressionable Norwegian lad from Wisconsin...
...familiar: a new boy in a tough school makes a couple of social blunders and finds himself the target of a bullying gang's wrath. But the method that undersized Clifford (Chris Makepeace) uses to solve his problem is novel. He persuades Linderman (Adam Baldwin), the biggest lad in his class, and one wrapped in a menacing silence, to act as his bodyguard. In the course of their nicely developed relationship, Clifford discovers that his new friend's silence is motivated by a dark but not dingy secret, which understanding can cure. By the time the two have...