Word: elizabethan
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...house is strong academically, but even stronger intellectually; there were five Eliot Rhodes scholars in residence at Oxford with Master Finley in 1955. Artistically, the House Dramatic Society scored a major success with its February production of Richard II, and is now rehearsing The Merchant of Venice. An Elizabethan comedy is the highlight of the annual Christmas dinner, and there are several practice rooms for pianists...
...Cambridge Drama Festival, in preparation for its series of classical plays this summer, revealed tentative plans last night for a permanent Elizabethan set to be built in Sanders Theatre. The University has donated the Sanders stage to the drama group for its three-play summer program...
...greatness of these 350-year-old madrigals lies in the combination of lovely Elizabethan poetry and musical settings which preserve a consistent harmonic structure while observing equality of line. Each part, from soprano to bass, is melodic and fun to sing. Woodworth has long spoken of madrigals as after-dinner music, and on Friday he proved his point by placing his 16 best singers around a table for several of the pieces. Morley's My Bonny Lass and Shoot, False Love sounded especially buoyant in this arrangement...
...advise and encourage many of the most promising younger writers in the Cambridge community. Richard Wilbur, for instance, dedicated his recent translation of Le Misanthrope to Levin. Robert Anderson, author of Tea and Sympathy, was a student of Levin and later a section man in his course on the Elizabethan drama, before leaving Cambridge to write the play. And Levin still remembers the day Robert Lowell, then a freshman in the College, came to him for advice as to whether or not he should transfer to Kenyon and John Crowe Ransom (which he eventually did). "The secret of advice," said...
They Can't Win. "Britons today," cabled TIME'S London Bureau Chief Andre Laguerre, "lack much of their old self-confidence. The recent advent of a young Queen, the talk of a new Elizabethan era, the dynamic character of a new self-confident Toryism, the conquest of Everest by Edmund Hillary and of time by Four-Minute Miler Roger Bannister, are all factors which in the last few years have combined to bolster that waning confidence. Princess Margaret will start no revolution whatever she may do, but things are now so far advanced that...