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SHELL OF DEATH-Nicholas Blake-Harper ($2). Literature account of the murder of Fergus O'Brien, a T. E. Lawrence-like aviator who, unlike his prototype, has involved himself in amorous intrigue. Lines from Tourneur's Elizabethan play, The Revenger's Tragedy, provide the main clue...
...family orbit change their motor habits completely, begin to gesture like those in the new environment. Mixed marriages may alter the gestures of the spouses. Even in the same country motor habits are not stable. The British, for example, have not always manifested their present immobility. In Elizabethan times they gestured violently. Dr. Boas' conclusion from all this is direct and simple : motor habits are cultural, not biological...
Distinguished in appearance, impressive in speech, and Olympian in manner, he has awed class after class when he expounds the intricacies of Elizabethan interpretations, or the Anglo-Saxon of Beowulf. Today ends his forty-eighth year of classroom teaching, and in the fourth and succeeding centuries of Harvard's existence, today will be remembered for that reason alone...
Ralegh was the greatest failure of the Elizabethan age, and outside his native Devon the most hated man in England. His rocket-like career came down like a dead stick, but there was a star-burst before the end. Ralegh was a gentleman but not a noble, and both the Tudor and the older nobility frowned on him as an upstart. After a fitful attendance at Oxford some fighting in the Low Countries and in Ireland (where he made historians shudder by his part in the massacre at Smerwick), Ralegh went to Elizabeth's court and began his rapid...
Edmund Horace Fellowes, eminent authority on Tudor and Elizabethan music, will give a recital-lecture in Paine Hall tonight at 8.30 O'clock under the auspices of the Division of Music. Dr. Fellow's subject will be "William Byrd: A Father of English Music...