Word: beowulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After disposing of three prospective suitors--Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, dressed as the Marx brothers--Charisma is enchanted by the massively masculine figure of Beowulf ("a wandering ethos") who is followed by a broken-hearted lover, Grendel's mother ("mother of Grendel, an anti-social type"). The fair damsel was ravishing in green makeup, red eyes, a nightgown sort of thing and shocking pink tights. Several tutors got quite excited at this one and had to battle the marxists to get backstage...
...BEOWULF: I know your kind. You'll just change into things, like Grendel's mother...
...BEOWULF: You are? Oh, then at last I have a theory of labor value...
Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau appear in the play in the guise of Groucho, Harpo, and Chico Marx. But the spirit of social inquiry gets dumped on in the end. The hero is Beowulf...
...great man is ready to take it up. But if quality is lacking, quantity is not. In the 16 years since World War II, more poems have been composed in the U.S.-last year more than 200,000 were submitted for publication-than were written in ten centuries between Beowulf and the Bomb; and in Britain, poetic production has approximately doubled in a decade. What's more, sales of poetry on records are tuned to unprecedented volume. U.S. poetry buffs have bought 50,000 platters of Robert Frost reading Robert Frost, 400,000 of the late Dylan Thomas reading...