Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Published this week is a new version of The Cloud of Unknowing (Harper; $1.50) -this time an "interpretation" by an anonymous student at a Quaker center. Greatly abridged and rearranged, the language of the new version is pared down to plain English as spare as a Friends' meetinghouse. The result is far less colorful than the conventional editions but perhaps more useful to the modern reader...
Playwright Priestley had used an English professor and his family for a symbolic blueprint of contemporary England. The professor's wife wants to break with provincial university life; one daughter seeks salvation in science, another in religion; a son can see no salvation in anything, and has turned cynically to ?.s.d. To the professor, the best thing for a country that has its back to the wall is to put its shoulder to the wheel. But nobody listens much to the professor (likably, gently played by Cinemenace Boris Karloff). Nor on Broadway did anybody listen much to Mr. Priestley...
Died. Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, 73, dean of U.S. psychiatrists, first (1909) to translate Sigmund Freud into English; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Austrian-born Dr. Brill, until his fatal illness, remained a practicing psychoanalyst, a teacher at Columbia and N.Y.U., the leading U.S. Freudian...
...Ideal Husband. Paulette Goddard and a fine English cast in a lovely, languid production of Oscar Wilde's play (TIME...
...English experience includes an affair with an English scenic designer, satisfying his vague desire since adolescence to go to bed with a white woman; scrapbooks filled with clippings on his flight; dinners in his honor; studies in aeronautics, half-purposeful, partly an excuse for remaining in England; candid talks with Englishmen whose fairness and honesty about India's nationalism are a surprise to him after the Britons he had known in India...