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...myth and the reality take on many forms. The classic case--fated to frustration, needless to say--is the lovesick student who hopes that his heart can flame forth anew after the fire of a once-torrid affair has been snuffed out in the frigid winter. As women fill the streets of Cambridge in their low-cut pastel dresses, as men walk by in their tight-fitting T-shirts, this unattached youth sighs in paralysis at the endless possibilities passing by Sadly the student pauses in the reading of Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy to dream of the distant...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: The Wrongs of Spring | 3/27/1975 | See Source »

...perspires and the shores of the island once again prove cloister like in their immutability, these globetrotters are more easily prey to a new, but no less powerful, set of images of worlds not realized. And within a few weeks, a month at most, the disillusioned ranks of the lovesick, the homesick, and the big city buffs will succumb to new illusions of journey and escape. Has anyone seen my sunglasses...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: The Wrongs of Spring | 3/27/1975 | See Source »

...still at large in the Northern Territory, the toad posses are counting on Bufo's well-known amorous proclivities to do him in. A local radio station will broadcast a recording of the male Bufo marinus' bass mating call in a last drainage-ditch attempt to lure lovesick and fecund female toads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Bufo Plague | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

...undergraduate, Rubins continued acting, directing, and writing. His repertoire included over 20 roles ranging from the monosyllabic Nagg in "Endgame" to Moonface Martin in "Anything Goes" to Teiresias in "Oedipus Rex." Rubins's favorite role remains Richard Miller, a lovesick teenager in "Take Me Along...

Author: By Michiko Kakutani, | Title: What's on Josh Rubins's Mind? | 7/12/1974 | See Source »

...Stop, the film that catapulted Marilyn Monroe into the superstar category, based on a play by William Inge, a drama of lovesick cowboys and barmaids with hearts of gold. Channel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

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