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...Hungary a sadistic Bolshevik schoolteacher named Tibor Szamuely made Elizabethan progresses through the countryside, stringing up uncooperative peasants to the nearest trees ("Szamuely fruit...
...centuries, London life had an almost Mediterranean vitality. Its medieval and Elizabethan fairs were riots; its May Days were wide-open phallic festivals; its murders were as common as dirty looks. The streets by day were deafening, by night as dark as doom, at all times filthy enough to guarantee the survival only of the fittest. Londoners were so energetic that despite a generous round of fairs, festivals, bear-baitings and other formal diversions, they repeatedly broke forth in impromptu mass hell-raising. They loved sport, splendor, cruelty, gayety, anarchy. There was no regular police force in London until...
...Puritans, thinks Burke, cast a blight over these high spirits from which London never recovered. Its energy remained; its gayety did not. In the 18th century, London girls no longer went maying into the fields to be deflowered; instead May Day workmen cadged pennies around town like little boys; Elizabethan violence gave way to the swinish japes of the well-born "Mohocks" and Regency bucks. Industrialism thickened London's misery and thinned its spirits still more. Victorian street children (next to Victorian factory children) were the most wretched in England's history...
...course in Lyric Poetry by Robert Hillyer, Boylston Professor in Rhetoric and Oratory, and two half-courses on Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, to be given by Harry T. Levin, Faculty instructor in English, are two of the alterations in next year's schedule...
...half courses on Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama will be known as English 25a and 25b, and will displace the present courses given by Levin which are courses on the nineteenth century novel, and a course on Proust, Joyce, and Mann, known as English 6 and English...