Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty years later, John L. Sullivan had come to Boston from Roxbury. At the advent of another tavern renaissance, society began its journey westward from Beacon Hill to Brook-line and finally to Wayland, Weston, and Wellesley. Since 1900 the biggest thing that has happened to Boston is Mayor Curley, and he is still happening. The sale of his library at Lauriat's a week ago started a near riot...
...Wellesley then has followed the practice of saving the best wine for the second course, its aperitif, Carnival King, is a doubly apt reminder that one must be careful about putting old wine in new bottles. The play, a new one by England's novelist-biographer of Dylan Thomas and King Arthur, Henry Treece, is a rather close reinterpretation of Marlowe's Edward II, minus Marlowe's sensitivity, depth, and clear focusing of the issues...
Taken as a whole, however, Group 20 has done a commendable job with a poor telling of a good story. If they do as well this week with an unquestioned classic, Moliere's all too rarely performed Bourgeois Gentilhomme, those who make the short trip to Wellesley may look forward to one of the high moments in this summer's theatre...
Wilbur, who is Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley, won the National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize for his "Things of the World." He has also won the Blumenthal and Harriet Monroe Prizes for Poetry Magazine, and held a Guggenheim Fellowship...
...varsity crew goes up the Charles Saturday at 6 p.m. Princeton, BU, MIT, and Dartmouth along for the ride, hopefully. The Harvard-Wellesley bike race gets rolling from outside Soldier's Field, Saturday afternoon...