Word: oxonian
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...creepy, spy-laden atmosphere where even secret agents feared to tread. In her latest novel, Friends and Lovers, she has abandoned the thriller for a ladies' magazine romance. Chief attraction: a headstrong Scottish lassie with her heart in the Highlands. She burns the torch for a callow young Oxonian, but its glow is no more than a soulless fluorescence, shedding little light, no heat...
...chip off the old block. At 17 he ran away from school at Rugby, later became a Communist, was beaten up by Oswald Mosley's Black Shirts at a fascist meeting. He got into Oxford with difficulty and became the first Communist president of the Union (Oxonian debating society). He later rejected Communism, joined the army as a Welsh Guardsman in 1940, was "commissioned as an intelligence officer and wound up in the Ministry of Economic Warfare...
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...
...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...