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When the great men of his own day came his way, Aubrey recorded every word he heard. Sir Isaac Newton and Philosopher Thomas Hobbes were his friends, and he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, where he knew John Dryden and Christopher Wren. No man to take irretrievable sides in 17th Century politics, he not only recorded Charles I's tall hunting stories but later listened to Cromwell declaiming at dinner that in all England Devon husbandry was best. When Charles II came home from exile, Aubrey was on hand again, recording the occasion when a Mr. Evans...
...Harvard Dramatic Club has a treat in store for you at Sanders Theater this weekend. "Amphitryon 38" is a sparkling theaterpiece that has delighted audiences and playwrights through thirty-eight versions, beginning with that of Plautus--down through Moliere, Dryden, to the late Jean Giradoux. It has possibly become more polished each time, for this most recent telling could hardly glisten more than it does...
...place of "Hamlet", the club is currently considering four other dramas for their coming show, which has been postponed from March to April. "The Zeal of Thy House," by Dorothy Sayers. "Murder in the Cathedral," by T. S. Eliot, the morality play "Everyman," and Dryden's "All for Love" are the leading contenders...
...Henry VIII, who founded Trinity, George raised his glass in a toast: ". . . Like many of you undergraduates, I myself came here [in 1919] straight from the fighting services, and I found in the atmosphere of Cambridge ... a steady and mellowing influence." Others under the influence: Newton, Bacon, Coke, Byron, Dryden, Tennyson...
Like many another student of languages, Publisher Stanley Burnshaw was tired of keeping his place in the front of a textbook while he hunted up definitions in the back. Last week his Dryden Press published a Spanish text, Paisaje y Hombres de América, designed to do away with all the fussing...