Word: lemuel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grace Lemuel Winchester...
...Vatican (Pope John XXIV is a stout-swilling Englishman given to reminding his visitors that "we are the Holy Father"). Plague and cholera still ravage its citizens because ecclesiastical authorities have hamstrung medicine and banned science altogether. Jean-Paul Sartre is a French Jesuit. Children read books like St. Lemuel's Travels and "a collection of Father Bond stories." The entire canon of William Shakespeare was proscribed during his lifetime and most of his plays burned as incitements to humanism. Hamlet is now attributed to Thomas...
...Mostert makes clear, greed and circumstance have overborn technology. The great ships are badly built and hard to handle. They are also, it appears, crucially overloaded, sloppily sailed, sketchily regulated for safety and steadily dangerous. The problem is partly a matter of scale, a dramatic change that-as Lemuel Gulliver learned to his sorrow-can be catastrophic. Especially in congested shipping lanes, the V.L.C.C.s are simply too big and too inertia-bound to operate safely by current rules of navigation. (Among other things, Mostert urges the establishment of onshore control towers like those now handling flight patterns around jet airports...
This womanless ("hairy legs") tradition dates back to the first Pudding production of December 13, 1844 in Hollis 11. That first production was a direct steal from a stage play which had run in Boston at the old Tremont Theatre. Lemuel Hayward '45, together with a few of his colleagues, agreed that the mock trials had run their course. (The most popular of them had been called Dido vs. Aeneas: for Breach of Trust). And so Bombastes Furioso, the first in a long line of Pudding preparations was born. The play included one female character named Distaffina. "Madam" Augustus...
...when Flip was still a youngster, and his father floated from place to place in search of low rents. At one point he moved his brood into a coalbin cellar. "We'd steal buns from the A & P, milk, anything to keep alive," recalls Flip's brother Lemuel, a carpenter in Jersey City. "I used to steal Christmas trees so we'd have one on Christmas." In those days Flip was a quick, thin child with a runny nose and a big appetite; his brothers and sisters called him "Tin Can" because he ate so much...