Word: rebecca
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...members include Agna Boass of Greycroft House and Sherburn, Biology; Mary E. Costanza of Coggeshall House and Quincy, Philosophy; Rebecca Hoge of Everest House and Wayland, English; Ellen B. Kritzman of McIntire House and Glenhead, N.Y., Biology; Mrs. Dorothy M. Mermin of Cambridge, English; Lynn V. Moorhead of Cabot Hall and Poplar Grove, III., Biochemical Sciences, and Janice D. Rowe of Greycroft House and Woburn, Far Eastern Languages...
...COURT AND THE CASTLE (319 pp.)-Rebecca West-Yale University...
...Yugoslavia. Rebecca West once invited a professor who lived in a smaller town to come to Belgrade. He declined, saying: "Thank you very much, but I am like Hamlet. I want very much to go to Belgrade, but I cannot make up my mind." Most Shakespearean producers, critics and audiences have agreed with this point of view, complains Author West. Hamlet, they say, is the most fascinating of plays-and Hamlet the most irresolute of princes. But, Author West suggests, how about taking another look at Shakespeare's text? Instead of seeming an ambivalent neurotic with a pure heart...
...nature of that revelation is the theme of The Court and the Castle, 16 literary essays based on Rebecca West's Dwight Harrington Terry Foundation lectures at Yale. Author West agrees with Turgenev, who said: "There is not one of us but recognizes in the prince . . . our own characteristics." But the characteristics that men really recognize are neither noble aspirations nor irresoluteness: men see, in fact, their own traits of taint and corruption. Hamlet is stamped with Original Sin. Hamlet cannot be "pure"-nor can mankind. This is the message that people have managed to ignore for three centuries...
Nudged from the Niche. Founded in 1810 by a Quaker farmer named Isaac Pennock (whose daughter Rebecca gave her married name to the company, actually ran it herself for 22 years), Lukens has been nudged out of its modest niche by the big demand. Last week President Huston announced that the company will launch a $33 million expansion program that will boost Lukens' rated ingot capacity by nearly 25% to 925,000 tons...