Word: englisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some weeks ago, during the very particular and graceful lull of an English Sunday afternoon, two American travelers stopped by a pub in the village of Blandford, Dorset. The air was thick with Player's smoke and jollity, the sound of gentle joking, the slide and click of coins across the worn wood of the bar, and the easygoing strains of the new Eagles album...
Bass Player John McVie and Drummer Mick Fleetwood provide sonic propulsion as Buckingham's melodies range widely and easily between old English folk and avant-garde pop. The sound sometimes flirts with the sort of revisions of Eng lish folk idiom that Fairport Convention used to bring off with such foursquare inspiration, and sometimes, as in the title cut, skirts the sonic experiments conducted by Lennon and McCartney on songs like Revolution...
Gardner has taught English literature at Oxford since 1965. She has written several books, including "The Art of T.S. Eliot," "The Elegies and the Songs and Sonnets of John Donne," and most recently, "The Composition of Four Quarters...
Buckley said yesterday the Norton Lecturer may teach classes at Harvard if she chooses. Gardner currently teaches English 165, "Eliot, Pound, and Joyce," with Ronald Bush, associate professor of English literature...
Norton Lecturers from previous years include Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, Northrop Frye and T.S. Eliot, Jerome H. Buckley, chairman of the English Department, said yesterday...