Word: owen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collected works still sell, in an age when there is hardly any corner of a foreign field that calls itself English. If Rupert Brooke had survived, or had he even been exposed to the soul-shredding savagery of trench warfare that distilled the bitter poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, he might have become a different, and possibly better, writer. As it was, he became an anthological Immortal, trapped forever in the honey of post-adolescent nostalgia...
Looking like four errant Blue Boys, the lads hit their nimble stride in a script shrewdly slapped together by Scenarist Alun Owen and directed in racy "new cinema" style by Richard Lester. Scorning plot, Night affects to study an ordinary day or so in the wholly extraordinary lives of its heroes. They are the clear-eyed innocents, imprisoned by fame behind a whimsically improbable wall of wailing nymphets, but never for a moment blinded to the really flagrant foolishness of the adult world around them. Representing the dangers of creeping maturity is a low-comedy menace identified as Paul...
Self service in the dining halls is unavoidable, Owen went on, "but my en-the least, less than boundless...
...Owen cited the establishment of the Aliston Burr Senior Tutors as assistant thusiasm for those mess trays is, to say deans of the College, the requirement that all men live on campus, and the grants from the Ford Foundation, which support many House activities, as major influences on the growth of the importance of the Houses...
When the Houses were first established, Owen explained, many students were afraid they would have a "prep school atmosphere." "You could almost imagine tutors being assigned to tuck the boys in at night. In my weaker moments, I have often regretted that this particular aspect did not materialize...