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Joey & Maria's Comedy Wedding. Ongoing. Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St., Boston. (800) 733-5639. An audience-participation dinner show that, in the guise of the marriage of Maria Angelina Cavatelli to Giuseppe Antonio Gnocchi, serves up a roomful of Italian stereotypes...
...weren't so cheering, about the ease with which, at 20, he negotiated the considerable challenges of rhyme and meter he set for himself. Of course he belonged to a generation of surpassing formal accomplishment. That fertile decade of his birth-the 1920s-also gave us Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, Howard Moss, Amy Clampitt, Howard Nemerov. But as a craftsman he exceeded them all-in the thrill of the unexpected, anyway. Indeed, more than any American poet ever (with the possible exception of Marianne Moore), he conveyed an infectious, exuberant joy in sheer building...
Dante, observed the poet Richard Wilbur, wrote "from the center of a diamond." What Wilbur meant was that Dante's society was aligned in such a way that the sound and sense of his verses could emanate clearly throughout the Italian-speaking world, effectively defining a culture. American leadership enjoyed its own Diamond Age during the decades following World War II. Whatever was performed by the men at the gem's center, which was Washington, was amplified clearly around the country, redefining it. For those ambitious to lead (and those just keeping score), the paths to the center were crystal...
...years ago, today 75% are getting C's or better. While it would cost $15,000 to send a miscreant youth to boot camp for a year, STARS spends just $158 a child to provide music and dance lessons, sports and tutoring. When youths participate in such programs, says Wilbur Smith III, the city's mayor, they "start experiencing activities that reward them intellectually and emotionally, and that instills hope. You don't get that from punishment...
...Both my grandfather and great-uncle, Robert Barrett Lawson '31 and Wilbur L. Lawson '31, were on the prop crew and pulled the original Big Drum," says K.T. Lawson '97. "Today, I'm the Assistant Manager of the prop crew, and in that capacity, I pull the Big Drum...