Word: riverbanks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Afraid of Thunder. Precocious as a writer, Joyce was also precocious sociologically. He had his first sexual experience at the age of 14 with a prostitute on a riverbank. Some small taint of degradation kept clinging to his idea of sex-one of the many dramatic paradoxes in his life. He was a near-alcoholic; yet he pursued his writing craft with monastic austerity. He had the courage to face approaching blindness, eleven eye operations, and his daughter Lucia's madness, but he ran from dogs and thunder. He renounced Roman Catholicism, but he could never rid his mind...
...excellent proposal to found an Arts Center on a stretch of riverbank land adjoining Soldiers Field Road has come to seem less a cultural crusade than a political power play. Plans drawn up by the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center ("MeBAC"), a group formed to direct the project, threaten not only to ruin local classical drama companies by excluding them from the Center, but also, because of this apparent inequity, to founder the whole project before it gets under...
...compositions, Gotta Dance proved to be a happy, hopping number marked by the husky noodling of Giuffre's sax. The Train and the River opened with the rhythm of a not-too-express train, only to jump the rails and lose itself by a pleasant riverbank. When Jimmy and the boys took their bows, the audience applauded politely, not quite sure what it had heard...
...style that went wrong," said Carnegie when the race was over. "We did." Old Blues on the riverbank were inclined to huff: after all, Cambridge had won. And hearing the traditionalists crow in triumph, one of Rebel Carnegie's young revolutionaries mourned: "English rowing will probably remain outmoded now for another decade...
...year-old Maria and her grandmother were passing a bridge where three years before the body of Giuseppe Veraldi had been found, apparently a suicide. Maria stopped still, stared at the riverbank and fainted. When she regained consciousness, she spoke in a coarse, masculine voice. "I am Pepe," she said, and she began to drink wine and smoke cigarettes, play cards, and write in the handwriting of the dead Giuseppe Veraldi. She told how his friends had drugged his wine, thrown him over the bridge and beaten him to death with an iron pipe. Then she acted out the crime...