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Many of the 12 year old traditions will be swept away, however, as disciplined units replace the heterogeneous undergraduate groups of former seasons. Eliot's elaborate and bawdy Elizabethan Christmas productions are not likely to be held as long as V-men replace Elephants, and the Naval ROTC unit, which may occupy Kirkland House, will not be noted for water-throwing accuracy...
...finest orchestral conductors alive, a sovereign interpreter of music old & new, is no solemn priest of tone but the ebullient son of Britain's most celebrated laxative manufacturer. Goateed, 63-year-old Sir Thomas Beecham is also an enthusiastic newlywed, a considerable amateur of the Elizabethan drama (especially Beaumont & Fletcher), an adamant and voluble Tory (though in this role he is really more of a Character than a Colonel Blimp), and a transparent apostle...
...another good-will tour, Sir Thomas kept the Prime Minister waiting for an appointment and referred to the acoustical improvements in Brisbane's finest concert hall as a "rabbit hutch." The ensuing fan mail, he admitted, "was so various in invective that it might have been written by Elizabethan poets. . . . I am a peaceful and harmless man. . . . I simply can't understand why people are always going for me. It's positively a pathological attitude. People see Beecham and at once their backs...
Author Brooks's evidence for his case is far from conclusive. Readers will be grateful to Author Brooks for his delving into the vast mass of Elizabethan research, but they will not agree that his muckraking has uncovered a skeleton, will find still circumstantial and uncontroverted the evidence of The Bard's friend Ben Jonson: "I loved the man, & do honour his memory-on this side idolatry-as much...
Confusion's Masterpieces. Theodore Spencer, youthful Harvard instructor and poet (The Paradox in the Circle), is after bigger game than snarks. In Shakespeare and the Nature of Man, written with high intelligence and clarity, Spencer shows Shakespeare as the archetype of his age, in Elizabethan literature what Drake was to the Elizabethan navy-a symbol of England's emergence into the status of a world power. The Elizabethans, says Spencer, found themselves in a social and moral dilemma. For hundreds of years men had lived and died in a world in which "order [was] behind everything." Man, animals...