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...people whose stomachs are majoring in English, there is Linda Wolfe's The Literary Gourmet, which contains carefully researched and ably presented recipes for meals that occur in literature, such as the bake meat pies that Geoffrey Chaucer's franklin loved and the boeuf en daube that was the special triumph of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Ramsay in To the Lighthouse-"It was rich; it was tender; it was perfectly cooked...
...LIFE AND IDEAS OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE by Geoffrey Gorer. 250 pages. Norton. $5. "This is the most impure tale that has been written since the world began," the Marquis de Sade said of his novel Les 120 Journees de Sodome; and the world has tended to agree. Les 120 Journees has been banned almost everywhere-even in France, and so have most of the rest of De Sade's works, which describe in relentless detail murder, torture, coprophagy, and sex orgies that are a triumph of human engineering. "Here I am," boasts a De Sade heroine during...
...Geoffrey Gorer, a British anthropologist, treats the violent marquis much too nicely. He almost turns him into a cranky English squire. Even so, Gorer discovers in De Sade "a misanthropy that is unequaled in human history...
...Geoffrey S. Smith '22 has been elected President of the Harvard Alumni Association, an organization representing more than 120,000 alumni of the University. Smith, who served as first vice-president of the Association in 1962-1963, will take office the day after Commencement...
...Monday night Ursula Oppens '65 and Geoffrey T. Hellman '65 will take part in a demonstration class taught by pianist Leonard Shure. Afterwards, Shure, who has performed with major orchestras including the Boston Symphony, will play Beethoven's Sonata Opus...