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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John M. Bullitt '43, professor of English, will leave Harvard at the end of the term to become chief representative of the Peace Corps in a Latin American country...
Oxford University passed over Robert T. S. Lowell Jr. '39 and appointed Edmund Blunden its professor of Poetry last Saturday. Lowell, who is a visiting professor of English here, would have been the first native-born American to occupy the chair...
...professorship, which is considered one of the greatest honors that can be given to an English-speaking poet, has a five-year term and pays $840 for three lectures a year. The lectures are allowed to be on any subject, but they are usually criticisms, not discussions of the mechanics of writing poetry...
...cinema technique, is a one-man show that scants Iago to star Laurence Olivier as the Moor. London critics were overwhelmed by the almost inexhaustible resourcefulness of Olivier's stage interpretation. Archivists should cherish the film as a record of what happens when the greatest actor in the English-speaking theater attacks a famous, difficult role and stamps his genius upon it. Yet Olivier's Othello seems ultimately to be pitted less against Iago than against the Bard himself...
Anthony Burgess, also an English Catholic satirist, tells of a painful, three-year tour of duty on Gibraltar during and after the end of World War II. There he suffered not only the unrewarding frustrations of rear-echelon soldiering, but also the discovery-agonizing for a young man-that his vocation for music was, if not false, secondary to an untested talent for writing. The result might well have been a damp dollop of self-pity; A Vision of Battlements is anything but that. It is a high-spirited cadenza amid the brassy cacophony of war, played by a born...