Word: owen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only undistinguished white keys upon which Thomas plays his song of humanity. And Captain Cat, though one of the three narrators and Thomas' central figure, is seldom more than a vacuum tube to broadcast the author's lyric commentary to his listeners. With characters like Mr. and Mrs. Cherry Owen or the fussy Widow Ogmore-Pritchard ("Before you let the sun in, mind it wipes its shoes"), Thomas allows more individuality and they reciprocate by adding the lusty strength and humor which make the play memorable...
Taken at face value, John Owen Beaty, professor of English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, would seem to be a, most sedate sort of scholar. An affable, ruddy-faced man with a Ph.D. (Columbia, 1921), he has been a member of S.M.U.'s English department for 34 years, served as its head for 13. But of all the professors the university has ever had, none has proved more embarrassing than friendly Dr. Beaty...
...seems to have preferred quantity to quality. In 1877 he records and cites by name and nickname a record haul-35 tamed or half-tamed little girls in the course of one short summer holiday. He also records the most shocking blunder of his life-chastely kissing little "Atty" Owen, a "child" who turned out to be 17. "Mrs. Owen treats the matter quite seriously! She adds, 'We shall take care it does not recur...
...Owen also announced that the Department will renew courses on the American South and the Byzantine Empire...
...Owen also announced that the department has proposed for faculty approval the addition of four new courses...