Word: chaucer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inequality Among Men. In London, where they were scheduled to see the Old Vic perform Hamlet, they found that the Old Vic had just closed for the month. They "did" Hamlet anyway in their hotel, and somewhere along the line squeezed in Canterbury Cathedral and a lecture on Chaucer. Finally, last week, they groggily got ready to come home. What had they learned? "Tell you the truth," said one traveler, "you get so that you see everything in half a daze...
...Secret Love. For the past three years, he has been working on a new opera. "British composers," says Walton, "are all writing operas now." With about 20 minutes of music left to write, Walton thinks he may finish in another year. The work is Troilus and Cressida, based on Chaucer's poem, not Shakespeare's play ("You can't set Shakespeare's to music"), and the world's top opera houses have already made bids for the premiere. The story, adapted by British Librettist Christopher Hassall, is practically foolproof opera material. The scene...
...STRANGER joining the Kinseys and staff on one of their picnics would never suspect that these nice, comfortable faculty folks were engaged in studies any more stimulating than the use of the comma in Chaucer. Visitors are exposed to the same paradox in Kinsey's plant, which is called the Institute of Sex Research, Inc. The atmosphere is one of surgical asepsis, and each room is as clean and functional as the inside of a clock. Doors are heavy, made of a three-ply, soundproof material, and they have substantial locks. Kinsey carries numerous keys, and his progress from...
...Canterbury Tales. A versification by Nevill Coghill, preserving much of the lusty, 14th century tone of the original Chaucer in a rendering as witty and up-to-date as the conversation of a 20th century Oxford don (TIME, Aug.11...
...Canterbury Tales. A versification by Nevill Coghill, preserving much of the lusty, 14th century tone of the original Chaucer in a rendering as witty and up-to-date as the conversation of a 20th century Oxford don (TIME...