Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SEVERED HEAD, by Iris Murdoch and J. B. Priestley, is a most unusual play to encounter on Broadway. It is a sex farce adapted from a novel by an Oxford University professor of philosophy (Miss Murchdoch), and its true subject is the nature of reality. It is acted with uncommon skill, and it is a delectable repast of fun and thought...
...lifelong and unswerving Hatred of the 20th century's industrialized, democratized ways. From his first irrespressibly comic, murderously sar-comic novels (Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies), most of Waugh's books have vad as their real subject the loss of a golden age. Looking back, the Oxford Vlnd Mayfair targets Waugh satirized in Viene '20s and '30s have largely vanished, Baking with them half the early novels' Viumor but leaving the rage intact. After World War II he suddenly turned eariest: Brideshead Revisited is a frankly logic lament for the passing of a golden youth...
...Waugh has decided that his -own time has come to dig up the past and remember. In this reticent, ironic, Quietly elegant first volume of autobiography (he plans two more), Waugh takes his life through school and Oxford, ending on the eve of his first littrary success. He insists that from early Childhood he sensed "another age which 1 instinctively, even then, recognized as Superior to my own." This nostalgia for "the Mid-Victorian ethos" later came to be a fixed theme of Waugh's books-and of his religion, his Tory politics, his testy and forceful prejudices...
...Hodgkin's orderly mind seems to thrive on a diet of clutter and clatter. After graduation from Oxford, when she went into research, her first lab was in a dingy basement under the university museum. It was her precarious exercise to climb a ladder to a gallery while carrying the delicate crystals with which she worked. But whatever the circumstances, she maintained an elegance of appearance and achievement. No distraction was enough to spoil the work that led to a thorough knowledge of the penicillin molecule, and to the discovery of the structure of Vitamin B12, the recalcitrant molecule...
...Oxford University Press edition of War and Peace sells for $8.00 at Mandrake. In the Coop textbook department the same edition is priced...