Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lowell House. As if one could ever forget. The spirit of the notorious Lowell House Christmas plays is ever-present, and ayone who wants to read sex into the lines will have exceptionally meaty material ("You are round and ample/Let Leander have a sample"). Oh yes! Former Master Elliott Perkins' initials are inscribed above a door-way. What else could provide a more appropriate setting or such an enjoyable performance...
...PIECE OF LETTUCE by George P. Elliott. 270 pages. Random House...
Pugnacious Poet-Novelist Elliott comes out swinging against a wide variety of targets, ranging from sex cultists to the high priests of New Criticism. The most devastating of his 15 essays, Who Is We?, concerns the 107 (Elliott's count) grand poohbahs who dominate the U.S. cultural scene from Man hattan's Morningside Heights area. They are the "Diors and Schiaparellis of intellectual fashion design," in Elliott's phrase, and include Eric Bentley, Jacques Barzun, Lionel and Diana Trilling. "What they think today," says he, "you're apt to find yourself, in a Sears, Roebuckish...
Diver Dan Mahoney, suffering from a stone bruise, and Henry Frey, Elliott Miller, Earl Showerman, and Joe Stetz, all suffering from hour exams, will not make the trip...
...FINE MADNESS, by Elliott Baker. A lighthearted novel about Samson Shilli-toe, a poet, souse and womanizer who keeps the plot in motion with his talent for anarchy, his tropism for cops, and his tendency to rant at strangers...