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Word: latinizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production, given entirely in Latin, has a spontaneity seldom seen even in plays whose medium is English--a tribute to Messrs. Maurice Snowden and Robert Brooks for their direction of a theater-piece that offers such obstacles to "sophisticated" tastes. Language difficulties are reduced to a minimum, and the obvious enthusiasm of the cast--which sometimes, but infrequently, amounts to overplaying--carries the play along when exact meaning may be in doubt. A sense of timing, so important to the success of any farce, seems to be well nigh perfect, so that situations are always clear though subtleties be lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miles Gloriosus | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

Plautus, done in the right spirit, can't fail to be amusing. You don't have to be a student of the Classics, you don't really need Latin at all to appreciate and guffaw at his comedy. The Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy have been successful at the same type of comedy for years, a slapstick variety with humor arising from situation and double-meanings rather than from plot intricacies. That is the type of humor in "The Braggart Warrior." Briefly, a soldier with a bigger mouth than a sword has one woman and would woo another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miles Gloriosus | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

...Class Day," James Russell Lowell wrote in 1874, "may be traced by no doubtful inference to an attempt of the Overseers, beginning in 1754 and renewed at intervals for some ten years, to improve the elocution of the students by requiring the public recitation of dialogues translated out of Latin into English." Lowell was, however, evidently unfamiliar with the diary of President Wadsworth which indicates that some sort of ceremony existed at least as far back...

Author: By David E. Lilienthal jr., | Title: Gaudy Class Day Rolls On ... | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

...President & Fellows should sit with their Hats on when Valedictories are pronounced," he wrote. Early in the senior year, apparently, the Class got together to pick someone to deliver the valedictory. By 1750, there had been added more class officers, a dinner, and a sermon, as well as the Latin oration. In 1743, at an election meeting, several seniors were "found guilty of drinking prohibited Liquors," and were fined...

Author: By David E. Lilienthal jr., | Title: Gaudy Class Day Rolls On ... | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

Robert Angus Brooks 3G has been awarded $20 for an original essay in Latin entitled "Quaestions Eauidnsc...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3 Bowdoin Prize Winners Named | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

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