Word: murray
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...famed, spirited, but excessively proper translation of British Classicist Gilbert Murray, Aeacus. judge of the dead, mistakes the wine god Dionysus for Heracles, who has stolen Cerberus, the watchdog of Hades...
...Murray's "cutpurses, burglars, father-beaters" become, in Young's thistly translation, "houssbrakars, sporranslitters, daddie-dadders." Young is not above throwing foreign phrases into his Lallans: "He's a richt pukka sahib, your maister...
Brekekekex, Koax. Impenetrable at first, Lallans becomes readable after a little practice, and the reader stumbles through even such sheep-pasture poetry as: "Meantime the doitit gomerils sat,/ the hinnie-darlin mamma's pets/and gowpt like gowks." (Murray's equivalent verse: "Each sat at home, a simple, cool,/ Religious, unsuspecting fool/ And happy in his sheeplike...
Gregory M. Harvey '59, John M. Ferren '59, and James L. Kincaid '58, members of the Crimson negative team, defeated Princeton here in Cambridge. The University's affirmative team, composed of David L. Bynum '59, Kenneth Aldrich '60, and Richard H. Murray '58, won at New Haven against Yale...
Comparative Literature 270, "Thematics," a seminar on the historical and psychological significance of certain recurrent themes in Western literature, will be taught by Henry A. Murray '15, professor of Clinical Psychology, and Harry T. Levin, professor of Comparative Literature...