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Finch surely would have been the first orphan from Leicester, England to play in the Major Leagues. He likely would have, though I’m not sure, been the first disciple of the Tibetan 11th-century poet-saint Lama Milaraspa to make the New York Mets...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'BAMMA SLAMMA: The Tale of Harvard's Incredible Sid Finch | 4/13/2005 | See Source »

...Irene Worth) and at the end of Act II is seduced by her. The seduction scene owes a discernible if unintentional debt to Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More. In that play, Mrs. Goforth, also an enormously wealthy woman, nakedly tempted a poet-saint in her offstage boudoir. From stage center, Miss Alice tempts the lay-brother saint. With her bare-shouldered back to the audience, she whips open her black negligee and nakedly faces Julian. As he drops to his knees before her, she gives three orgiastic cries of triumph. If Worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Tinny Allegory | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

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