Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bird and his shaggy sidekick Barkley the Dog (played with wonderful canine verisimilitude by Brian Muehl) must locate all the landmarks depicted on the scroll; each locale provides a clue to the whereabouts of the elusive phoenix. After solving all the clues, Big Bird finds his shimmering Chinese soul mate perched in the sheltering arms of a spectacular banyan tree...
...author describes such rogues, they live their resolutely unreal lives with a style that touches gallantry. His account is as close to Binion's as a prudent soul will venture, but Alvarez knows both poker and the writing of English, and even if he does call bettors "punters," this field guide is the reader's equivalent of an inside straight. -By John Skow
...roles called for more rehearsal time than the actors apparently got. Bob Gunton is a shade too stilted as James, hoping perhaps that physical constriction could simulate advanced middle age. Frank Langella moves with grand assurance across Broadway's Longacre stage, ranging from impish mischief to laceration of soul. As Eleanor and her alter ego, Damon and Kerr lend their roles compelling honesty, and Roxanne Hart is a five-alarm sexual conflagration...
...Orthodox spokesman called acceptance unthinkable. A delegate from the African Methodist Episcopal Church called homosexuality "an aberration and perversion." Although the United Methodist Church officially finds homosexual relationships "incompatible with Christian teaching," Theologian Roy Sano, representing the denomination's liberal wing, said the N.C.C. should "fear for its soul" if it spurned the gay church...
...occasion. The society that they were commemorating is the creation of longtime (1909-33) Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, who endowed the society with $2 million of his own money ("It took nearly all I had") in the belief that the independent work of great scholars was the soul of a great university. He patterned the society after fellowships offered in England and France. Said Lowell: "Productive scholarship is the shyest of all flowers. American universities must do their utmost to cultivate it, by planting the best seed, letting the sun shine upon...