Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thesis angst began one Friday afternoon in February of my freshman year. I had just returned from an English 10 section when the phone rang...
Many of this year's more unusual theses are those that span several fields. Lea Saslav '89, a joint Fine Arts-English concentrator, has spent nearly a year studying the connections between themes in Pope's poetry and the design of his garden...
...Golden Age. In fact, it was to be the most memorable twelve months in the history of the American cinema. There was Gone With the Wind, of course, whose production attracted more intense public curiosity than any other film ever made. When Vivien Leigh -- beautiful, talented, but indisputably English -- was cast in the role of the Old South's own Scarlett O'Hara, thousands of Americans reacted with patriotic fury, as if the Redcoats had burned Washington again. "Why not cast Chiang Kai-shek and change the part to Gerald O'Hara?" a correspondent indignantly demanded of Movie Mirror...
BERT RIGBY, YOU'RE A FOOL. Robert Lindsay (the London-Broadway star of Me and My Girl) plays the lead in Carl Reiner's funny fable about an English coal miner's search for celebrity. Anne Bancroft is glorious as a randy Hollywood princess whom Lindsay meets on the potholed road to stardom...
...crust, prepares at least 50 boxes a week for his customers. On any given Monday morning, an arbitrager on his way to the coast will stop by to pick up his deluxe, shiny white box. Inside: beluga caviar on thinny-thin slices of white bread, a wedge of brie, English biscuits, a string-bean salad and a chocolate mousse. Fellow passengers look on jealously, perhaps not suspecting that this discerning gent finds $95 a small price to pay for being spared an airline lunch...