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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HADRIAN VII. Alec McCowen gives a masterly performance in Peter Luke's play as the English eccentric Frederick William Rolfe, a rejected candidate for the priesthood who imagines himself elected Pope...
...made by a team that included Sheppard, Duffy, Researchers Margaret Boeth and Rosamond Draper, and Books Editor Timothy Foote. Reporter Duffy has been a Nabokov admirer since she read Lolita while a student at Radcliffe. Since then she has read everything he has written that has been translated into English, and she is waiting impatiently for more of his poetry to appear. Sheppard, who was managing editor of Book Week before he came to TIME in 1967, is also an ardent Nabokov fan. "Ever since I first read one of his books," says Sheppard, "I have thought...
...view, the verb "to be" was a dangerous and frequently misused word that was responsible for much of mankind's semantic difficulties. Going the master one better, Bourland has led a one-man crusade for the adoption of "E-prime" -which is his name for the English language minus...
...before that. He had worked with George for almost 30 years, and had toured all over Europe with him. He had been the grand dad of the group, and now--at 80--he was hospitalized with stomach cancer. Drag was a delightful little man, a creole who spoke little English that was intelligible, and a lot of creole French that no one understood but him. He had grown up--like many New Orleans jazzmen--in a French speaking family, and seemed to personify the blend of Latin and African cultures which had made New Orleans and its music so unique...
...TRUNK, son," the Queen said. "You're going to Harvard." In Cambridge the Prince met a wizard in corduroy who fed him spices full of visions. Banquets, English carriages, French cigarettes. He was really living...