Word: cantabrigians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout, life in town and country is laced with sundry subplots involving rogues, bullies, detectives, tarts and popinjays, as well as a few sterling characters ranging from a Cantabrigian historian to a gentleman's gentleman, who almost rates a novel by himself. Young Churchill makes an appearance. The suffragists and the Irish troubles and Kaiser Wilhelm crowd in, sometimes hilariously. Edward VII comes across -accurately-as a spoiled, imperious near Nero who nonetheless had a regal way with bridge, economics and foreign policy. The novel ends in 1914, four years after Edward's death, as the honeyed England...
...crowd at the next, walking from one sound into another. Many of the onlookers could have been anywhere--the well-dressed, well-groomed young men and women who wander around Quincy Market eating overpriced ice cream when they're not doing the same in the Square. Others were more Cantabrigian--t-shirts and cutoffs, mid-20s, long hair. And some, though not a lot, were hippies, for lack of a better term. Harvard Square may be one of the few places where street people remain, where they even seem to be on the increase. More raggedy clothes, more sitting...
Sparked by two sweeps in the 400 meter run and the 55 meter dash, the men's track team melted Dartmouth's hopes of a Cantabrigian Winter Carnival and soundly defeated the Big Green, 75-61 at the ITT Saturday...
...mark that historic city's 350th birthday. But Cambridge historians will tell you that, some 990 years ago when the first ships blew into the Harbor, they didn't set anchor till they had journeyed up the river to Cambridge. Leif Ericson, these archaeologists contend, was the first Cantabrigian, and his settlement here may well have been the first European colony in the New World...
...they picked well... I feel it was no accident that their four most successful recruits were all taken from the ranks of those who considered themselves unloved." He adds: "It was the adultery of the soul that claimed most of their spare time." In this arrangement of the Cantabrigian quartet, Bryan Forbes, the English actor, director (The L-Shaped Room) and novelist, homes in onTheo Gittings, who bears a passing resemblance to Blunt. Theo, a brilliant, alienated invert who becomes a pillar of the literary establishment, is compared by critics to E.M. Forster (a fellow homosexual who issued the closet...