Word: griselda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will now play a request for Fraülein Griselda Schmidtloser of District Wilmersdorf," said the disc jockey. But what the fraülein heard was not Buttons & Bows; like most Germans, she preferred Liszt and Brahms...
Miss Sorel's critique stung a Radcliffe senior to action. "We Radcliffe girls are a long suffering group," wrote Sophie Reagan, Radcliffe '41, in a letter published in the CRIMSON, "but under the kind of persecution we have received at Harvard's hands, even a Griselda would revolt. It seems to me that the time has come to show that we have feelings and that they have been seriously injured." Miss Reagan summoned her Radcliffe sisters to join her in an informal Committee to Take Radcliffe Seriously...
Even without a thorough grounding in the classical Chinese theatre, one feels that "Lute Song" has preserved the essential spirit of a lyrical drama with a simple, fairy tale-like atmosphere unfamiliar to must American theatre goers. The unadorned plot--a story similar to Chancer's "Patient Griselda"--remains intact through the translation and condensation into one-third the original length, as do elements of Confucian ethics and what appears to be satire of Buddhist ritual...
...family was large, rich and unhappy. Rolls's father, John Dane, called "The Eye" because the family thought he saw everything, was stern and ambitious ("I want a big house," he said when he was married. "My ideas, my schemes are big. Very ambitious and very, very big"). Griselda, his beautiful wife, was afraid of him. Rolls's older sister Selina, who never married, was possessive, bitter and tyrannical. She ruled the house when her parents died. Pelham, Rolls's brother, was too inhibited to display his real emotions. Rolls himself never did anything he really wanted...