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Meister said in a prepared statement that overa two year period Garvey gained confidentialinformation on at least 15 companies--includingUnited Airlines and Time Warner--which he thenpassed on to Gleeman...
According to Meister's statement, Gleeman'sfather, Seymour Gleeman, joined the schemesometime around August 1989 at the invitation ofhis...
...group, MacNeice had the most gaily matter-of-fact and the most realistically despairing things to say. His three exciting Eclogues (For Christmas, By a Five-Barred Gate, From Iceland) established him among modern-poetry readers as the gleeman-laureate of England's cushy post-World War I civilization and of its dismal decline. And in his shorter lyrics MacNeice had many high-spirited skirmishes with reality...
Next week Producer Aborn will present The Yeomen of the Guard, a more serious Gilbert & Sullivan operetta not often revived. If he does as well as he used to do, Frank Moulan will get in some heavy dramatic licks as the gleeman with the croak of a frog-o. Of the present production it may be said, with the chorus...
...sketch of the old Norsemen, their habits and character, and their religion. He showed how they brought with them their old songs and legends, and how they influenced the native legends in Britain. Only three of these legends have safely passed the destructive hands of the monks, namely. "The Gleeman's Song." "The Fight at Frimsburg," and "Beowulf," and they are the beginning of Anglo-Saxon poetry. 'The Fight at Frimsburg' is short but alive with the fire of war, and the description of battles. Beowulf, however, is a long and thrilling tale, and told with Homeric simplicity. A deep...
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