Word: wood
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Nonetheless, Boston is not all evil, being, at the least, free from the "three great annoyances of Woolves, Rattle-snakes and Musketoes." William Wood divulged this attraction in 1634 as a bait for future settlers. They came: they pushed their cows about to create Boston's streets, and later died, filling an astoundingly large number of graveyards...
Ruth is persuaded to abandon Chemosh-worship by Mahlon, a gentle young Jew from Bethlehem. He is thrown into prison and then mortally wounded while escaping. Ruth marries him as he dies. Damned as an apostate and pursued by Moabite soldiers, she flees with his mother, Naomi (Peggy Wood), to Bethlehem, and there finds herself in danger of being stoned for idolatry. At last tolerance prevails, and eventually she marries a good and godly man named Boaz (Stuart Whitman...
...Scotland, a third witch cackles at NBC's color cameras as TV prop men bring Birnam Wood-root, leaf and branch-to Dunsinane. Along the brooding battlements of Yugoslavia's 12th century Lovrijenac fortress, the ghost of Hamlet's father spurs his son's revenge; deep in Russia, at Tashkent, the jealous Moor strangles the blameless Desdemona. A marble shard's throw from the Parthenon of Sophocles and Euripides, a Greek Shylock pleads, "Hath not a Jew eyes?" -while halfway round the world, black-jeaned Australian troupers tour the outback by bus, with a crown...
...their customers are satisfied. Above all. the Stratfords have recaptured some of the fluidity of the Elizabethan theater, in which the "two hours' traffick of our stage" was literally true, since scene followed scene without break, and the scenery might be no more than a placard reading "A Wood Near Athens" (see cut). To judge by the traffick rush to the Stratfords, today's audiences agree with Critic Maurice Morgann, who wrote of Shakespeare in 1774: "It is safer to say that we are possessed by him, than that we possess...
...duel; "Kit" Marlowe was stabbed to death in a tavern" brawl. The Elizabethans lived dangerously, and while they lived, they were asmile with daring. Shakespeare held a magnifying glass to the spirit of his age, and set the unroofed circle of the Globe's "wood en O" blazing with his Muse of Fire...