Word: anna
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Anthony Anstey (Peter Van Norden) emerges not only as a too finely tailored and too fully fed villainous wheeler-dealer, but in Gutierrez's vision he becomes a Brechtian figure of American corruption. Goldie's aunt and guardian, Mrs. Kensworth (Anna McNeely), the kind, matronly refugee from a F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, foreshadows the decadence of the roaring '20s. Her and Anstey's affectations, their overladenness with jewels, and their presumed moral superiority add a touch of the gilded future America would find in store...
...programs all over the country. Next on the list are BJ. Merholz's King of America, the story of early Greek immigrants to the U.S., and Jesus Salvador Trevino's Sequin, the tale of a Mexican American who raised an army to fight the forces of Santa Anna...
Stephen A. Marglin, professor of Economics, and Hendrik S. Houthakker, Lee Professor of Economics, and Houthakker's wife. Anna-Teresa Tymienieckay, founded the Academic Committee for Democracy in Poland December 16. The committee sent he Polish Embassy in Washington a signed statement calling for the Polish Military Council to "free the detainees immediately, restore them to their normal activities," and "allow them to fulfill their legitimate roles within Polish society...
...Paris, took James Joyce to the studio of "His Master's Voice" to record the Aeolus episode of Ulysses. Although extremely nervous, Joyce delivered an impassioned reading. The result was a disappointment: the poor quality of the master disc overpowers the author. Later in England, Joyce read the Anna Livia Plurabelle section of Finnegans Wake with much better equipment. His eyesight failing, he read from a huge typescript, although he must have known the famous passage by heart. Here, his voice lilts and trips in a lively evocation of his Irish washerwoman. If Finnegans Wake seems impenetrable without guidebooks...
...Vladimir Nabokov's lectures [Nov. 16] reminded me of the extraordinary final exam I took 24 years ago in Nabokov's course at Cornell. All his students were aware of his emphasis on "the word, the expression . . . not ideas" and, consequently, had read Tolstoy's Anna Karenina with great care. However, very few of us were prepared for questions like "Describe Vronsky's last glimpse of Anna" (dead under the wheels of a train), and the "trick" question: "What color paint was on the walls of the room where Anna was sick?" (no paint...