Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PASSIONATE PRODIGALITY, by Guy Chapman. This memoir of life and death in the trenches is an authentic classic of World War I, an elegy for a generation, written unsentimentally and unforgettably...
...delusory lay all around him in his youth. Born near Hampstead Heath in 1903, Evelyn (pronounced evil in) Waugh grew up in a nursery papered with "figures in medieval costume" and was assured by his mother that cities were "unhealthy and unnatural places of exile." His father, a publisher (Chapman & Hall) of theatrical disposition, was a sort of hearty Walter Mitty who continually pretended that he was somebody else. Evelyn himself, though somewhat daunted by Alec, an extraverted elder brother who also became a novelist (Island in the Sun), was a dreamy and credulous child who adored Sunday evensong...
...minute film Un Dance d'Amour, produced and directed by Jean Genet, had been scheduled as the last of four movies to be shown in the course this Spring. But, after section men previewed the film late Wednesday night, Robert H. Chapman, associate professor of English, decided that the movie was not "fit for such general consumption...
...mistake from the beginning," Chapman said yesterday. "When we scheduled the film we thought it would have some dramatic relevance, but we realized after viewing it that if it hadn't been done by Genet it would probably have been junked long...
...been seen jointly with French 183. That class, taught by Frederick R. Jameson, assistant professor of Romance Languages and Literatures saw the movie as scheduled. Friedman reportedly stood at the entrance to the viewing room and turned away the few Hum 4 students who tried to get in despite Chapman's warning...