Word: marvels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long dalliance with the fretful young fop Douglas begins with besotted love notes ("My Own Boy, it is a marvel that those red rose-leaf lips of yours should have been made no less for music of song than for madness of kisses") and reaches its most wretched state in the 87-page De Profundis letter. Here Wilde, having come to terms with remorse, attempted to scourge the consistently childish Douglas into an adult assessment of his own character. The passages of confession are moving and wise; for perhaps the only time in his life, Wilde looked at himself clearly...
BURNETT: The Midwestern Marvel...
...goodbye Master Gerringer), all beaten by smooth-swinging youngsters who were in turn beaten by better ones. By the fifth round, only Mr. Patton was among the eight quarter-finalists. The others were all 25 or under, and the fact that Patton had come that far suddenly seemed a marvel of geriatrics. Billy Joe even made it through to the semifinals...
...visiting British players, the U.S. tour was a ruddy marvel. The five-week campaign carried them from the towers of Manhattan to the arch of the Golden Gate, from the green hills of Stratford, Conn., to the quiet lanes of Philadelphia. They gamely took on all comers, from the New York Giants to a pickup squad of actors and writers at the Bucks County (Pa.) Playhouse Inn. The result after a dozen matches: a dozen triumphs for the Britons. "It appears," said British Team Captain Peter Freeman with sovereign contempt, "that America's best players are only slightly superior...
...chair, the couchant old lion, chomping his usual Havana cigar and giving a victorious V-sign to a cheering curbside crowd of 1,000, was whisked away to his Hyde Park Gate home for a champagne toast to his recovery. Puffed one proud bystander: "He's a ruddy marvel...