Word: bede
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Through much of her career, the author of Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch commanded great critical and public esteem. But her reputation began to decline with the new century until the epochal year 1933. It was then that a young American instructor named Gordon Haight came across a cache of Eliot letters in the Yale University Library. For the next 50 years Haight devoted himself to the correspondence. He became the general editor of the definitive Clarendon Edition of Eliot's novels and, in 1968, produced a fine, now standard biography. Haight's crowning achievement...
...excellent women live through it, in a round of jumble sales, festivals, parish politics and hopeless crushes on clergymen. If Pym's ecclesiastics tend to be a weak, feckless lot, it is no wonder: they are endlessly cosseted by women. One of her most vibrant characters is Harriet Bede in Some Tame Gazelle, actually an affectionate portrait of the author's sister Hilary. This middle-aged lady is crazy about curates, the younger and more threadbare the better. Any veteran of her bounty-rich food, good sherry, hand-knit woollies-is spoiled for life...
...Rome to form a patchwork of hybrid races, all of them notable for ferocity, hatred, stupidity, craftiness, lust and brutality-how did it happen that, from all this, there should come the Gregorian chant, monasteries and cathedrals, the poems of Prudentius, the commentaries and histories of Bede... St. Augustine's City...
...Crisis in Confidence: When Birnham Wood was brought to Dunsinane, there were those who regarded this program as the first sincere public reforestation effort since the Venerable Bede. Often overlooked is the circumstance that this action occurred at a time when there was a severe erosion of confidence in the government of Scotland. Somewhere, in all this, there is a lesson to be learned, and this generation of Harvard men has learned it. They probably learned it from the sayings of Chairman Mao, now made respectable by the vice-president. For example...
...When the Colosseum falls, Rome will fall; when Rome falls, so will the world." So said the Venerable Bede in awe 1,200 years ago, at the 1st century's most famed amphitheater. The Colosseum, though battered by earthquakes and ruthlessly despoiled by late Renaissance builders who stole its facing stones for the Farnese, Barberini and Venezia palaces, has long been an image of megalithic permanence. Not any more. Last week Roman authorities took the extraordinary step of closing the Colosseum to visitors indefinitely...