Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong performances add to the general insanity and make the difference between a mildly amusing comedy and a gut-wrenching howler. Donald Sutherland makes one of his infrequent appearances, putting just the right gleam of depraved obsession into his all-too-brief characterization of the dope-smoking, corduroy-clad English professor. The scene in which he and three students conspiratorially share a joint in his darkened cottage is one of the most effective in the film, thanks largely to Sutherland's knowing grins and his wolfish, slightly stoned expression. Karen Allen charms as Katy, the girlfriend...
Angel Street managers to be a nice trip, taking you back to the good old days when Bedlam was probably the most interesting place in the English-speaking world. And in contrast to today's apocalypse of drugs and free sex and other anti-Victorian diversions, a glimpse of Angel Street will teach you to appreciate your sanity
DIED. Gerald Warner Brace, 76, novelist of the New England scene (among his eleven books: The Garretson Chronicle and The Islands) and longtime professor of English at Boston University; of cancer; in Blue Hill, Me. A stylish lecturer who in spired thousands of students with his incisive and dry-humored dissections of American literature. Brace, though born on Long Island, developed a lifetime love affair with New England (and particularly Maine) that was reflected in the values that his life and novels extolled: duty, moderation, self-control and, above all, the enduring power of reason...
...another English scientist, Dr. Douglas Bevis, casually dropped an even bigger bombshell. Not only had human eggs been fertilized in the test tube, said Bevis, but they had been successfully implanted in three women who subsequently gave birth. It was widely suspected that he was talking about his own work. When he proved unwilling or unable to document his claims, Bevis was so roundly denounced that he soon vowed to give up all such research. To this day, no one really knows whether Bevis was making phony claims or was a victim of the furious scientific competition between rival fertility...
...Victorians liked fell victim to the revolutionary mind. After Cezanne and Matisse were exhibited in London, the Royal Academicians complained about "Bolshevism in art." They were in a sense right. Within 20 years the Victorian subject-pictures had ceased to be the glory of English collections; they had become a storage problem, a social embarrassment, like certain White Russian exiles...