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...probably needed to sandpaper that a bit; yet he stayed with a Jewish name: Eddie Cantor. But most-from Jerry Levitch (Jerry Lewis) to Nathan Birnbaum (George Burns), Emanuel Goldenberg (Edward G. Robinson), Pauline Levy (Paulette Goddard), Rosetta Jacobs (Piper Laurie), and Melvin Hesselberg (Melvyn Douglas)-have preferred the Anglo-Saxon angle...
...nothing is the Anglo-Saxon "snow" derived from Sanskrit sneha, 'moisture,' or the Gaelic sneachd. Of late, unwonted newtish wetness pervades the simmering gutters, and as if for efts lies puddling on the pavements. The icicles, sad eyelids of the white-haired residences, weep down the ivy cheeks and in despair cascade in shattering barrages on the innocents below. Minutious capillary streets transmit a filthy umbrous melt to unreceptive veins, unopened sewers, and all along the byways mounds of pablumgrey constrict the traveler from...
Providing linguistic-historical comments on the hush-hush Anglo-Saxon words which occur with distinct regulari- ty in Cancer will be Morton Bloomfield, professor of English. The minister who will participate is Robert W. Haney '56, author of Comstockery in America, who is associated with the First Unitarian Church of Boston...
...writer not known to have been guilty of science fiction sets his novel in the 1970s, the reader knows that a message is coming, probably on wings of allegory. British Novelist Angus Wilson, who has until now been content to annotate skillfully the thesis that people are unbelievably nasty (Anglo-Saxon Attitudes), sets the time of his new novel halfway between now and 1984, and the place is the London Zoo. Only a Symbol Simon could fail to read a message here...
...first and practically final version, Ship of Fools has been in the making for 20 years-"or 30 if I count how long I thought about it." Based on a diary she kept on a 1931 voyage from Veracruz to Bremerhaven aboard a German ship crowded with Teutonic, Anglo-Saxon and Latin types, Ship of Fools is an oceangoing Grand Hotel, which tells in parable form of the slothful, harmless and irresponsible people who made possible the rise of fascism. "I took for my own this ageless, almost universal image of the ship of this world on its voyage...