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Critic Eric Bentley once nominated him for a Nobel Prize. Theatre Arts printed his Pantagleize last summer, with an awed introduction by young Playwright Jack Richardson. As is necessary for any great name about to be "discovered," he has his complement of American professor-knights, who, while constantly deploring a world that has taken insufficient notice of their writer-king, are always ready to skewer anyone else who dares to mention the hallowed name...
...REVUES : Writers Eric Bentley and S. J. Perelman have contributed presumably literate material to Cut Loose! (Sept. 13), which has dipped elsewhere for its lyricists-to James (From Here to Eternity} Jones, for example. Beyond the Fringe, which has had London round the bend with laughter for two seasons, has been only lightly red-white-and-bluepenciled for American ears...
...steno when she sailed from London two years ago, Toni Avril Gardiner, 21, was back home again. As Princess Muna al Hussein, wife of Jordan's King Hussein, she checked into the palatial Dorchester Hotel with 27 satchels of finery, then toured the town in a murmuring maroon Bentley with a Scotland Yard escort on a shopping expedition to buy toys for her five-month-old son. And wasn't it fun to lunch at Buckingham Palace? Said the Princess: "I just hope I don't drop anything-any of those forks and spoons...
Five students from each of the three training units will receive awards to be presented at the Review. Among the recipients are William E. Bailey '62 (Navy ROTC), who will receive the Massachusetts society of the Sons of the American Revolution medal; John J. Bentley III '62 (Army ROTC), the Army Reserve officers association medal. Massachusetts department; and Peter F. Carpenter '63 (Air Force ROTC), the Air Force Association award...
...neophyte, for he moves with ease from the world of scholia and emendations to that of tone and imagery. At one point he combines the two methods quite neatly, when he uses Horace's consistent seasonal metaphor as evidence to correct a reading suggested by the magisterial Bentley...