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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. An Indian playboy (Shashi Kapoor) wavers between his movie-star mistress (Madhur Jaffrey) and an English actress (Felicity Kendal) who is touring the provinces with a troupe of tatty Shakespeareans. But the real show is U.S. Director James Ivory's delicate study of fading British influence in India...
...educated at Columbia, Clare College and Cambridge; since then he has taught "just about everywhere but the South," including Grinnell, Wayne (Detroit), Princeton, Minnesota--where he is now Professor of Humanities, on a leave of absence--and Harvard, where he was for two years an Instructor in English, with a Warren House office and an Appian Way, later a Beacon Hill, address. A student in his Freshman Composition course in 1941 remembers him as a cold and vigorous teacher who invited his students to his apartment, gave them drinks, played music and told them what and what not to like...
...sort of recent Jazzese, the language of the post-vaudevillian Negro entertainer, without the furniture of dialect ("The jane is zoned! No nightspot here, no bar/there no sweet freeway, no premises..."); some of them talk about Henry (which is really the role of "his friend") in ordered, even ornate English: "Henry's pelt was put on sundry walls/where it did much resemble Henry..." Some mix the two languages: ("Henry lay in de netting, wild/while the brainfever bird did scales;") while some present experience that is clearly that of Henry's Negro friend, speaking without dialect; for example...
There is a guide also because some of the more fascinating small fields like Architectural Sciences and Astronomy, despite their excellent facilities and high faculty-to-student ratios, go unnoticed in the springtime stampede to sign up for one of the "mighty five"--History, Government, English, Social Relations, and Economics...
Daniel Seltzer, associate professor of English and Alfred Harbage, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature, will give English 124, Harvard's Shakespeare course, Seltzer will lecture in the Fall and Harbage in the Spring...