Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...geographers. Ostensibly the reason is the advancement of archaeology, but we are shown, not so clearly as might have been that the reason is imperialist. Empire is to advance, a tribal nation is to be suppressed as the part of a programme. All the subsidiary characters are caricatures of English upper class types: there is the inevitable newspaper magnate, a very unreal person despite his peerage and suggested kinship to Lords Rothermere and Beaverbrook. Because the characters do not convince the reader of their realty, the play fails to come to life, and one's memory of it is likely...
...Lewis and Stephen Spender has almost been severed, for both have taken the road to overt political action as advocates of the Popular Front in Great Britain. Will the bond finally snap? Or will it be repaired and will the three be joined again as the triumvirate of English poetry searching for "new country" of political and social experiment as well as of literary discipleship to masters like G. M. Hopkins, Yeats, and Eliot...
That the art of eating has gone the way of the art of glass blowing was made plain by such order lists as the one above which is just part of the menu for a 1468 dinner tendered two English statesmen. Or, if you are still hungry just peruse the following food which required 62 chefs to prepare for a contemporary spread. Six wild bulls, 104 oxen, 400 swine, 1000 mutton, 1200 quail, 304 stags, and 3000 pigs were among the delicate offered to the gathering of 4000. Just what percentage of the 4000 had another little snack at bedtime...
...stimulated, there was one dinner mentioned which is somewhat reminiscent of the approaching bowling contest to be held in New York City this month. This will show how we have progressed by having the pulchritudinous "Rockettes" from Radio City burst from paper mach bowling balls, whereas the old time English gourmets were satisfied with "little black amores" who leapt lightly out of enormous pies and presented perfumed gloves to the honored guests...
...long been the custom in some of the older courses to prohibit return of the books. George L. Kittredge '92, Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, never returned the books for his famous English 22, and Kirsopp Lake, professor of History, follows this practice in his Bible course...