Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture follows George Eliot's book very closely, so some of the more impossible situations in the plot have to be blamed on her Victorian methods of story-writing. When Maggie Tulliver stands in the forbidden embrace of Philip. Brother Tom conveniently hoists himself over a fence in the background. When Maggie breakfasts with Stephen after having spent an unwilling night in his company, she is seen by all and sundry who might like to defame her character. The poor girl doesn't have a chance...
...dinner-party in an Ohio town, gets hurt, and has to stay on in the house for weeks, the play's wit is as gleamingly cutthroat as its antics are gorgeously custard-pie. The identity of the lecturer is as open a secret as the fact that George Eliot was a woman. Lecturer Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) is an unexpurgated version of Alexander Woollcott, who has been a friend of the authors' as long as he has been a legend of the literary world. They originally created Sheridan Whiteside as a part for Woollcott. He refused to play...
...least three first-rate English writers were paying the U. S. the compliment of "exile"-which at least two great U. S. writers (Henry James and T. S. Eliot) had paid to England in the past. W. H. Auden (rhymes with applaudin'), whose search for noonday truth took him to Iceland in 1936 (Letters From Iceland), then to Spain during the Civil War, then to China (Journey to a War), last week had taken an apartment in Brooklyn and intended to stay. Bony-faced, eager, un-slicked, Auden told a reporter that he saw one hopeful prospect from...
Scoring a touchdown on a punt return, Leverett football stalwarts won their first game in the inter-House league at the expense of Adams yesterday afternoon. An undefeated Winthrop team, at the same time, scored an easy victory over Eliot 13 to 0, with George Dreher leading...
...response to increasing demands of the University's camera enthusiasts, an Upperclass Photography Club has been organized, and the first meeting will be held at 8 o'clock Monday night in the Eliot House Junior Common Room...