Word: loree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...function. It is the poet's mind, not his work, that is on display. Auden's mind, seen through his reading, shows exceptionally broad learning and intellectual tolerance. The man is also quirky, traditionalist and playful with a patrician fondness for the recondite-whether in the lore of language or nature. His compilation belies the term "commonplace" with properly Audenesque irony...
...Yorker spent a year here doing research for his book. It was originally titled It Can't Happen Here; so much for analysis. Harvard Through Change and Storm (New York: W. W. Norton, $7.50), as the revised version was called, is a pleasant enough romp through Harvard lore, past and present-the kind of book that gets written every five years or so, and written well every 20. You're probably due for one about...
...object of all this learned scorn was The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, which argues that Jesus was not a man but a hallucinogenic mushroom, Amanita muscaria; that the New Testament was concocted by addicts of the mushroom as a code for their mystical lore; and that the God of Jews and Christians is ultimately nothing more than a magnificent phallic symbol. Normally, such preposterous stuff would be dismissed as beneath serious discussion. But in this case the author is a maverick philologist of some scholarly standing: John M. Allegro, 47, former lecturer on the Old Testament at the University...
...season would be true, but a little bit like praising a candle flame in a blackout. To place Company in the perspective of exciting excellence that it occupies, one must call it a landmark musical, one of those few shows that enter the permanent lore of the theater by altering the vocabulary of dramatic possibilities...
...mother, Dame Judith Anderson is relegated to pantomimic mother-in-law jokes. Despite these lapses-and a pseudopoetic slow-motion lyricism-A Man Called Horse has one estimable benefit: it avoids the white-race-is-the-cancer-of-history reproof that has marred much of the New Indian Lore...