Word: dryasdust
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...judge by his day-to-day life, Larkin is a contemporary Dr. Dryasdust. Since winning a first in English at Oxford, he has passed his entire adult life tending libraries; he is now head librarian at the University of Hull. At 42, Bachelor Larkin looks the part, and likes to look it: "Nothing embarrasses me more than to be typed as a poet. My friends are very tactful. They've decided that I'm kind of the next best thing to a poet you can get in welfare-state Britain, where everything is brown and without passion...
...past few theater seasons in Cambridge have been as artistically exciting as any in the memory of most of its inhabitants. "The Harvard Theater," says the MacLeish statement, "is to be an educational facility," and recent seasons have been educational, too, even by the most Dryasdust standards: the last two of the four examples given above are on the reading lists of courses given by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Moreover, Harvard productions have been the center of admiring attention at the Yale Drama Festivals...
...instance, Alfred E. Stearns, Fuess's predecessor at Andover, was anything but a "dryasdust pedant... At times he displayed a fiery temper, and on at least two occasions peremptorily 'fired' an instructor in anger, only to repent and apologize before sunset. Sometimes he made enemies by the stout fashion in which he spoke out, but the boys liked his ... strong convictions ... He continually stressed . . . moral issues; and like Thomas Arnold he was more interested in forming character than in producing scholars...
...House of Lords. Not much time has elapsed since the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Dr. Herbert Murray Burge, introduced to the House a bill to control consumption of alcoholic beverages by local option. The bill secured the support of the "dryasdust" Lord Astor; the Government also gave its support with a number of reservations...
| 1 |