Word: orphan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...archetypal force of the Dickens story still faintly magnetizes the stage. Fagin is a kind of storybook witch, but the power of witches exists to be broken. Oliver is destined for storybook transformation-the ill-born pauper turned well-born prince, the maltreated underling who bests his oppressors, the orphan boy who finds a father and a home. Every boy who ever had a nightmare or a dream, every adult who ever yearned for renewal or rebirth, feels the pull of Dickens' fable...
...Industrialist Cyrus Sr. There was no football team at Hawken, and worse yet, no girls. So Cyrus III took off for Nashville, Tenn., where public West End High School, he heard, has both football and the coeds to go with it. Trying to enroll as a penniless orphan named Seth French, he let it slip that he knew Latin, and before long the jig was up. Said Cyrus: "I'm not happy. After eleven years in a private school, I wanted to see what it was like in a public school...
...plot is appropriately complex. Milly, a lily-white picture of virtue, the orphan daughter of a farmer, has just returned from a year of schooling in the city. With her first whiff of the pure country air, she again falls in love with her childhood sweetheart, the galumphing but more-than-pure, Osgood. He asks her hand and, in reply, she delivers the fatal lines, "Oh Osgood, that cannot be. The die is cast...
Others are paid subsidies by the Junior A. The subsidies are determined, as is a Harvard scholarship, on the basis of need. Kinasewich, who is an orphan, had to work to help pay for his room and board. As Junior A hockey demands intensive practice, he could not play hockey and work at the same time. Therefore the team paid him the equivalent of what he could have earned, and gave him the chance to continue in school. It also paid him money for lodging and meals for out-of-town games...
...which launched a drive on businessmen suspected of holding out on taxes or hoarding gold. Chan claims he saw police figures in 1953 listing, for Canton alone, 8,000 executions and 10,000 suicides. Chan says now: "I wanted to quit, but it was as if I were an orphan. I felt I had no place...