Word: elizabethans
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...noted as the class wit; condemned Phi Beta Kappa for luring muscularly competent men form athletics and making "nifties" of them; was acting chairman and later managing editor of the Yale Record; wrote a column for the Yale Daily News; and was a member of the Elizabethan Club, the Pundits, Psi Upsilon, and Wolf's Head, a secret society...
...Lady's Not for Burning is the child of poetry and prankishness-both parents springing from ancient British stock. It recaptures something of what Aldous Huxley said Elizabethan poetry had and later poetry lost: an ability to fuse comedy with lyricism...
Above the Echoes. Fry carries echoes of many poets-moderns like Eliot, 19th-Century Romantics like Keats. But his deepest echoes go further: to the poetic dramatists of the Elizabethan age. Some of the words he puts in Thomas Mendip's mouth sound like Hamlet in the Forest of Arden, or a most unmelancholy Jaques...
...With Elizabethan vim and versatility, Smuts had lived his own "idea of the whole" which he expounded in his book, Holism and Evolution in 1926. He believed that everywhere in the universe-among electrons and protons, plants and animals, minds and personalities, empires and world orders-the forces of cooperation and fusion, i.e., "holism,"*are at work. But at Smuts's life's end, not even his own beloved country was whole...
...verbal log jam, with prepositions flying wild, clauses drifting crazily and parentheses multiplying like rabbits. But when he is really in command of his story (about half the time), Faulkner makes his rhetoric work for him, even when it is full of echoes of Ciceronian oratory and of overripe Elizabethan poetry...