Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is little doubt that someday the college will use the properties to help consolidate its eight-block campus into the four-block area bounded by Wendell, Everett, and Oxford Streets, and Massachusetts Avenue...
Much of today's criticism tends to "darken understanding and blight enjoyment" of literature, Dame Helen Gardner, Norton Professor of Poetry and professor of English literature emerita at Oxford, said yesterday in the first of the 1979-80 Norton Lectures, titled "Wanted: A New Humanism...
...purchases were "consistent with Lesley's long-range goals to consolidate the college campus in the two block area bounded by Mass Ave, Wendell St., Oxford St. and Everett St.," Lewis's letter adds...
...approach is largely justified by the facts. "I've had an exceptionally lucky life," Auden said some four years before his death in 1973, and indeed it seemed to be. He enjoyed those rarest experiences in English literature, a happy childhood and a pleasant public school education. At Oxford in the '20s he made some impressive lifelong friends and acolytes: Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice, C. Day Lewis. A Cambridge graduate named Christopher Isherwood also joined what became known as the Auden Gang. The publication of Poems (1930) made Auden famous...
...guests jammed St. Margaret's, Westminster, in London. It was the marriage of the season, indeed for 57 seasons to come. Clementine's Edwardian dignity proved to be the perfect foil for her husband's tempestuous brilliance. She played her part so well that Oxford University, in 1946, awarded her an honorary degree as the "Soul of Persuasion, Guardian Angel of our country's guardian...