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...link will come as a result of the appointment of Dr. K. Frank Austen, assistant professor of Medicine at the Medical School, as Physician-in-Chief of the Robert B. Brigham Hospital...
...James Austen...
Missing from the House last week were two familiar figures, both former Foreign Secretaries. Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, 62, holder of six Cabinet posts in Tory governments and rejected aspirant for the prime ministership when Harold Macmillan resigned, announced that he was leaving his front-bench seat to accept a life peerage and become Master of Cambridge's Trinity College. The Labor Party's Patrick Gordon Walker, disappointed loser in last month's by-election at Leyton, announced that he had also accepted a position in the academic world-as adviser to the Initial Teach ing Alphabet...
...British intelligentsia's newest high priestess is Brigid Brophy, and it is easy to see why. She picks only top-chop idols, and her devotional fires resemble a Bessemer converter. Brophy's incisive critical essays have revealed her pantheon: Freud, Shakespeare, Mozart and Jane Austen. To Great God Freud she has already devoted a book, Black Ship to Hell; now the 18th century composer gets his. In Mozart, her scholarship is firm, and the writing is good Brophy, but it is sheer gusto and freshness of thought that make the book a joy to read...
Brophy's analysis of The Magic Flute lands her in a tangle of psychology and Masonic symbolism that even she has trouble resolving. (Mozart got into pretty deep water too.) But she is brilliant on Cosi Fan Tutti, the opera in which Mozart, like Jane Austen a century later, worked through the conventional comedy of mistaken identity to write daringly of two sisters competing fiercely in love...