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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 19, 2021, 07:13:04 pm ---Yes, I read it on your recommendation and it was a good article.
There's a link to a Wikipedia article on paiderastia in ancient Greece and it did not have negative connotations. They say it was socially accepted and the many depictions on pottery and in literature back that up. The stigma came later.
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It's been, like, 30 years since I read it, but Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, by John Boswell, is relevant to the development of the stigma.
Boswell was a cutie. In the picture of him on the back of my paperback copy, he appears blond-haired and blue-eyed, with a sort of enigmatic smile--and the top couple of buttons of his shirt undone.
He was family. We lost him to AIDS in 1994. His tragedy (in my view it's a tragedy) was that he was so devoted to Roman Catholicism that he bent over so far backward to try to prove that the early church was not homophobic that he was practically standing on his head, and that he sort of damaged his own reputation as a scholar. His last book, on same-sex unions, was rushed into print in order for it to be published before he died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boswell
Jeff Wrangler:
I think I am not further behind than I have ever been in my life.
Going all the way back to Nov. 29, I recommend the picture of the beautiful young man in the ad for Madrid on page 19. ;D
serious crayons:
Came across the word "sombre." A mistake, or more New Yorker style guide weirdness? Sombre isn't incorrect, but the preferred spelling in the United States is "somber."
Now I'm wondering (and this would be an easy mystery to solve), do they say "theatre"?
Front-Ranger:
Where did you find that? Maybe the author is British. No, I don't think they write "theatre."
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 03, 2022, 08:15:10 pm ---Now I'm wondering (and this would be an easy mystery to solve), do they say "theatre"?
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--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 03, 2022, 08:48:31 pm ---Where did you find that? Maybe the author is British. No, I don't think they write "theatre."
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Check Alexandra Schwartz's review of Company in the Dec. 20 issue: "It is one of the greatest moments in musical theatre," also the phrase, "in music or in theatre." Both appear on page 71.
I'd say check the TOC of any issue with a theatre review.
I would think that spelling is quintessential New Yorker usage.
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