Word: hardison
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Americans may have a chance to see more of the RSC on this side of the Atlantic in the future. The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. D. C. is interested in developing what Dr. Osborne B. Hardison. Director of the Folger, called in a recent telephone interview "the cordial will to talk" which now exists between the two organizations. The Folger. Dr. Hardison said. considers the RSC the finest Shakespeare troupe in the world, and would like, as part of the library's obligation to the public, to bring the troupe to America for more extensive tours...
Less radical members of M.L.A. were appalled. "If the M.L.A. starts taking political stands," said Executive Council Member O. B. Hardison of the University of North Carolina, English department, "it may spell the death of this organization. This is an attempt by 300 people to control 28,000." On the contrary, says Kampf: "The association should stimulate its members to personal and active concern with educational and social issues...
Renaissance Man. Boyish enthusiasm sits poorly on a professor, but an urgency and eagerness that transcend enthusiasm can be gripping. At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, English Professor Osborne Bennett ("O.B.") Hardison Jr., 37, wears scuffed shoes, drooping socks and chalk-streaked jacket, goes everywhere accompanied by a kindly dog named Poppo, and makes literature an urgent affair. O.B. revels in Joyce, turns Kant dramatic, convulses his class by acting out John Donne's poem The Flea. Hummingly in tune with the student wave length, he translates the oracle's prediction in Arcadia ("An uncouth love which...
...Hardison, says Neil Forsyth, a graduate student from Britain, "understands more of Aristotelian thought than anybody who taught me Aristotle at Cambridge." When one of Hardison's lectures on Milton and the Puritan period ended, Forsyth adds, "I wanted to stand up and cheer." Hardison admits to having some off days when "you wonder whether you are professing anything except ignorance. Sometimes I tell my best jokes and get nothing but lumpish faces staring back...