Word: oxonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though U.S. readers may still think of Poet Wystan Hugh Auden as an Englishman in exile, he has been a U.S. citizen since May 1946. As a U.S. man of letters, Auden at 40-Old Oxonian, old leftist intellectual, Wandervogel, versifier extraordinary, theological lyricist-is a figure of great oddity, and of considerable importance. The Age of Anxiety, subtitled "A Baroque Eclogue," glitters with evidence of both...
Poet Stephen Spender had a new job. The tall,wavy-haired Oxonian was hired (for next fall) to tell the young ladies at Sarah Lawrence College, in suburban Bronxville, N.Y., about literature and philosophy...
...Oxonian wits used to say, "At Cambridge they have beer and talk, at Oxford sherry and conversation." But the old saw has lost its teeth: at Oxford last week there was practically no sherry, only a little beer, and not even much talk. Everybody was too busy swotting (Oxonian for hitting the books). It was also a week in which Oxford took one more long step away from its classical past...
...cost of living has jumped about 25% at Oxford. The Oxonian who does nothing but study can barely get by on ?250 ($ 1,000 a year). To have an occasional tea party, an after-theater drink in the Randolph Hotel bar, or an infrequent meal at White's (the expensive new restaurant on The High), he would need at least ?350. The prewar prodigal who gave breakfast parties in his rooms, lunches with sherry, champagne, plovers' eggs and caviar, has gone with the food & drink...
...Pass-Man," that prewar animal who was happy just to get by in his studies, has all but vanished from Oxford. Many veterans are taking speed-up Honors courses, cramming nine terms into five. Sighed one sad Old Oxonian: "The colleges seem to be declining from homes of learning to mere hives of students...