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...himself notes, Racine's flawless "syllabic Alexandrines do not and cannot exist in English."* Lowell relies on loose-rhythmed couplets with idiomatic echoes of the English Restoration. Another hazard is that the powdered elegance and stately cadences of French 17th century tragic drama have proved persistently uncongenial to Anglo-American tastes. Poet Lowell, stoking his lines with fire and flair, keeps Phaedra and its key characters well above room temperature...
...varsity finished the week in an Anglo-American vein, defeating a combined team of Oxford-Cambridge players on the Business School flats. After one period of play before a large, shivering crowd, the score was tied at two goals apices. Spruance scored both goals for the Crimson...
...salons in his "stage poet" mask - green billiard-cloth trousers, pink coat, blue shirt, an immense sombrero, a Mephistophelean red-blond beard and a single turquoise earring. An even better attention-getting device was Personae, published in 1909, in which he first struck the tone of most modern Anglo-American poetry - spare, objective, unornamented, elliptic. Dante, the medieval troubadours, and his pet hate-love Whitman had been his tutors, but he had done the homework of craftsmanship. (In one undergraduate year he had written a sonnet a day.) Though stripped for action, many of Pound's lines still retained...
...third consecutive year the varsity lightweight crew went in late June to Henley-on-Thames, England, and returned with the Thames Cup, and undisputed symbol of supremacy in Anglo-American rowing...
...Among Anglo-Saxons the passion for bullfights used to be limited largely to such professional tauromaniacs as Novelist Ernest Hemingway, Barnaby (Matador) Conrad and Drama Critic Kenneth Tynan. Next came Actress Ava Gardner, who, like many a lady before her, had trouble choosing between man and beast. But last week Spain was crawling with a new species of Anglo-American characters known, even among themselves, as bull bums. Before a bullfight, these happy eccentrics can usually be found tossing down a fino in the lobby of the leading hotel or paying respects as the matadors nervously squeeze into their tight...