Word: jem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today's key singles contest is between Roger Tuckerman '59 and Oxford's ace, William Gunnery. In the first doubles match Jeremy Hogben and Jem Baily will oppose David Kingly and Edward Harding '58, the only veteran of the 1956 English tour. Charles Devens '32 will play Cambridge's Ian Stewart today, while Dwight and John Davis will represent Harvard in the final matches on Saturday...
Emotional I O Us. To begin with-as Author Maurois has diligently discovered -Miss Howard was not, as she said, an "orphan" from Dover named Harriet Howard. She was Elizabeth Ann Haryett, daughter of a Brighton bootmaker. Seduced at 15 by a jockey named Jem, she became an excellent horsewoman and later an actress at London's Haymarket Theater. At 18 she became the mistress of a wealthy Guards officer, who poured a fortune into her purse. At 19 she bore him a son. When she took the infant to be baptized, she named her own father and mother...
...Advocate, however, leads strongly. In "The Education of Jem" by Peter Pitts, the author characterizes Jem, a somewhat brutish farmer, unable to tolerate the crying of his infant son. While Jem is caressing the child's head in a fatherly fashion, the baby begins to wail and what was gentle fondling becomes a severe enough rubbing to kill the infant. Pitts has the ability to convert the discontinuous ramblings of a man's thought into readable and convincing prose. His first paragraph on the hypnotic effect of a gate scraping back and forth along the ground and, later, the section...
...generation of the '205 was devoutly iconoclastic. It put on (in the words of T. S. Eliot) "the black cap of jem'en joutisme"-of I-don't-give-a-damn-ism. It discovered with a mixture of horror and delight that it was living in a brand-new age, the 20th Century, and it decided to burn all the old cultural furniture. This huge fire, while it caused incalculable damage, cast a sharp, new light across U.S. civilization-and encouraged the younger generation of that day to do a whooping war dance around it. Gertrude Stein...