Word: purcelle
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A man who sees himself become a public monument in his own lifetime runs the risk of finding rude and irreverent remarks scribbled on the plinth. Such is the case of Britain's T. S. Eliot. Now he has had the ultimate accolade: a full-and fancy-dress parody...
For any reader even vaguely familiar with Eliot, a lot of the book is good fun-it might be titled Sweeney Among the Mockingbirds. Parodist Purcell has great sport with Eliot's comparison shopping between languages and religions, his footnote-prone scholarship, his frequent obscurity ("Fiffles the refulgence of...
This sort of spoofing aside, the book has a deadly serious animus: its real intention against Eliot is not to tear him for his bad verses but to attack him for his principles-which Eliot once oversimplified in his self-description as "an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in...
In The Dunciad, Alexander Pope's genius and malice made Colley Cibber memorable ; in The Vision of Judgment, Byron made Southey immortal. But if the name of Victor Purcell-or Myra Buttle-is remembered in a hundred years it will be for the fact that he threw a dead...
Professors contacted last night were unanimously in favor of such a measure, although several suggested that the function of the committee might be extended. Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics, said that the suggestion "sounded like a good idea." He added that "it has long been apparent that something like...