Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students will compete in the finals for this year's Boylston Prizes at 8 p.m. tonight in Paine Hall. The competition is under the direction of Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English...
Shakespeare enthusiasts have an opportunity to hear a complete reading of the Bard's little-produced "Coriolanus" in Sanders Theater at 2 p.m. this afternoon. The production is being given by members of English 123, and admission is free and open to the public...
Inside & Outside. When it came to explaining his new works, the everyday English language could take Irishman Middleton just so far. Teresa, for example (see cut), was "an attempt to portray in paint the personification of the Carrick Hill area-one of the poorer Catholic districts in Belfast. An attempt to feel my way into a particular aspect of Catholic mysticism, essentially Irish." It was an attempt, said he, to show "the ecstatic otherness of relinquishing all because one has nothing at all to relinquish...
Respect for the Enemy. During their two-year course the priest-students study economics, law (especially labor legislation), Communism, cooperatives, farm problems, history, geography, English, and the social doctrines of the Catholic Church. Each day's work is concluded with study of the Gospel-an antidote to the stiff daily dose of secular thinking...
...This time, the critics were watching. The New Yorker's Edmund Wilson found the Bolton style "exquisitely perfect in accent"; some of it he compared to The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises. Said the Nation's Diana Trilling: "The most important new novelist in the English language to appear in years." All the critics did not go overboard in this headlong fashion, but many agreed that here was a new talent...