Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pronounces plagues on Egypt, exalted as he receives the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai, toweringly wrathful as he descends after 40 days and nights to find the children of Israel cavorting idolatrously before the golden calf. Humbly indomitable in faith, he is most moving when he prays for his wayward and wandering people...
...Girl" that Restoration comedy can be sparkling and enjoyable in modern hands, there is good reason to be disappointed in the current production of "The Roaring Girl." The major disappointment is the play itself. It is a farce by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, about an old man, his wayward son, and a town character known as Mad Moll, the roaring girl. There are some moments of delightful comedy during the evening, but most of the time the actions seem mere posturing and the words mere wind...
...terms, penned a letter to the New York Times, listing the perfect Congressman's qualities: "The friendliness of a child, the enthusiasm of a teenager, the assurance of a college boy, the tirelessness of a bill collector, the patience of a sacrificing wife, the diplomacy of a wayward husband, the curiosity of a cat, and the good humor of an idiot...
Comment by the Deans' Office indicated that suspension can be justified, at least at Harvard. Assistant Dean Thomas E. Crooks said that he did not think that working at Stillman would make the wayward student "any readier to study." Dean Leighton said, "We used to have 'rustication,' whereby students worked on farms, but that went out a couple of centuries ago." No changes at the University are foreseen...
...weeks after Christmas, when Cate's twelve-year-old sister Em horrifies the family by taking off her clothes for the poor farm's Peeping Tom "to cure him." Then Cate's brother, who has eloped with one of the farm's wayward girls, learns the name of his wife's seducer and emasculates him. For a girl of curly-headed Cate's puritanical upbringing, all this is shocking enough, but when she finds out that daddy has been unfaithful to mother, she breaks off her engagement, runs away to the city...