Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, as World War II boomed forward from its overture to its first act, there was again a small disturbance in the orchestra pit. In the provincial English beach-resort town of Hastings, Conductor Julius Harrison of the local Municipal Orchestra announced that he would ban Wagner from the coming season's programs. Said he: "Wagnerian music is the prototype of Nazi aggression. It is heavy and militant and reminds one of Hitler...
...Henry Wood, dean of English conductors (TIME, Oct. 17), then conducting the Queen's Hall Promenade concerts...
...American & British Literature Since 1890). A poet of steadily finer weave and frosty skill, he published his Collected Poems this year. From 1935 to 1938 he studied cinema as The Nation's movie critic. And for the last ten years he has taught at Columbia a course called English 35 and 36, in which all the plays of Shakespeare are read through one after another...
Against World War I and the world that put up with it, Poet Richard Aldington has nursed one of the most protracted literary angers of his time. Like other English writers who fought and survived, he was unable to bring his mind fully to bear on his war experience until years afterward. His first novel, Death of a Hero, was written in one grim satiric gust in 1928. Ever since then, in novel after novel, Aldington has pointed the contrast he sees between the hope of a good life and literature which animated his generation, and the fog of death...
...some excellent war talk is heard from, among others, an aged and resigned Italian prince. None of it is more interesting than the implication of the book itself: that the pre-1914 ideals of scientific truth and romantic honor, handed on to David in his father's good English blood, made him an unwelcome guest in the period between wars. Richard Aldington's bright, reckless style has improved since Death of a Hero, his epigrams are neater (though subject to an appalling tendency to show off his Greek), but his grasp of real experience is weaker...