Word: chaucer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from his studies. There was a famous man in 1391 who wrote about astronomy. The same man had a friend at Merton whom he called "The Philosophical Strode." Could it be that the author of MS. 75-a "lewde compilator of the labour of old astrologiens"-was Geoffrey Chaucer himself...
...persuading other scholars to look at the manuscript. And one day, when he and his supervisor, A. R. Hall, were examining it, they discovered some notations hidden under the binding. "Good Lord!" Hall exclaimed. "Do you see what I see?" Sure enough, there in the margin was the name Chaucer...
...George Bernard Shaw; T. S. Eliot on Virgil; Joyce Cary and Henry Green on novels. Stravinsky's new opera, The Rake's Progress, was broadcast uncut from Venice, and the Third has won itself a slightly risque reputation by presenting, unabridged and unabashed, the Restoration plays and Chaucer. The Third pays somewhat more attention to time schedules than it used to, but a show will still be broadcast in its entirety even if it means running a few minutes over...
...studio dressing room, clad only in an athletic supporter, and raced hilariously around the set, while girls fled in all directions. Though Mario's literary preferences lean to body-building and movie-fan magazines, his uninhibited zest for startling pranks sometimes seems inspired by the gustier tales of Chaucer...
...scored an immediate success with Helen, thereafter wrote 18 more novels in the same mold, using figures from legend and history (Galahad, Adam & Eve, Francois Villon, Venus) to satirize 20th Century manners & morals. At the end he was still writing his streamlined version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Working title: The Wife of Bath and Her Boy Friends...