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...Gentleman is a neo-relict from the mothballed fleet of melodramas that Shaw laid to rust when he attacked the theater of genteel piffle. Those bygone plays were Victorian clutched-handkerchief-and-smelling-salts operas. With more calculation than wit, Playwright Dyne drapes sex in bombazine, drops gossip in pear-shaped tones, dredges up his plot from an actual 1885 scandal, and clearly depends on fresh memories of the Profumo affair to titillate his audience and breathe secondhand life into his play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Mothball Melodrama | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...Pear blossoms shaken by mad winds-hither and thither they're tossed; Unable to cling to their bough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sijo | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

Lurking half-hidden behind the lower edge of the liver, the pear-shaped gall bladder serves as a storehouse for an essential substance-the thick, greenish bile (or gall) that the liver manufactures to aid in the long and complex process of digestion. In the young, the gall bladder usually stays healthy and does its job quietly and uncomplainingly. By the time a man reaches his middle forties, his gall bladder becomes increasingly subject to infection (cholecystitis) or filling up with gallstones (cholelithiasis), or both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: The Presidential Cholecystectomy | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

...people of Seoul did not share Park's restraint. Fully 300,000 of them lined the streets to dab at their eyes or simply gaze in respect as the flower-bedecked hearse carried Rhee on his last trip to Pear Blossom House, his old residence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: The Exile's Last Return | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

...bald eagles and 200 crows spotted in Topsfield; whistling swans still found in Westport; the rusty blackbird nesting in Lincoln; the purple sandpipers piping sand to Plum Island; a partridge in a pear tree seen in Bethlehem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bird's the Word | 1/27/1965 | See Source »

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