Word: keatsian
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...final criticism of higher learning in the U.S., but it has its sting. Harvardmen will recognize the traits and the chatter. The Master of "Bromfield House," who enters on a card each new pun he divines in Finnegans Wake; the English department poet whose looks at least were once Keatsian; the Fogg Art Museum curator and his inseparable friends, young men of debonair malice; the publicity-seeking psychologist from the Midwest and his wife, resolutely unrepressed; and Dorothea's husband, John Calcott, a gentleman. Calcott, always well under control, stuns Dorothea in 1940 by coming to life and joining...
...spritely Keatsian reminiscences by Brian O'Nolan in your Aug. 23 issue recall that in his youth Keats took such a passionate interest in baseball he became regarded as a sage of the diamond, was often called upon to settle disputed matches...
...characters. He falls hopelessly in love with Sylvia, and she does him a favor, but she remains devoted to her surly absentee husband. Sinister Mrs. Forgate, who has a reputation as a husband-poisoner, watches with a cold eye the passionate friendship between her gigolo Antonio and the Keatsian poet Dacbe. Lad Greengable, godlike lifeguard with literary leanings, and Jacqueline, mannish musician, look longingly at Sylvia. Angela Flower (recognizable caricature of Aimee Semple McPherson) shouts hoarse evangelism through cocktail parties. Sol Mosier, neurotic antique dealer, pines for new sensations...