Word: saxonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think of abnegation. This comes, of course, from the fact that universities and colleges have quadrupled their enrollments and they have to bid high for even the poorest of staff. We cannot do a great deal about this, immediately, but we can stop blaming the deficit on Anglo-Saxon and Sanskrit, on research papers and the writing of books, and on concentration on periods of interest which are not strictly contemporary. Only too frequently knowledge of the contemporary is quite a bore, and it offers very limited perspective. I should like to take in hand one of those bitter critics...
...Gallahadion, Jim Dandy, Gallant Fox, Top Flight, Whichone, And one we need not call by name, the get Of Fair Play from Mahubah; and Regret, Noor, Sergeant Byrne, Ponder, and Petrotude, Miss Merriment, My Lovely, Singing Wood (Bay colt, by Royal Minstrel out of Glade), Cochise, Count Fleet, King Saxon, Cavalcade, Three fillies, Sorrow and Song and Rust-remember?-And Scarlet Oak, Right Royal, and Red Ember, Nashua, Swaps, and Sting, and Twenty Grand, Wise Counsellor, Whirlaway, and Yellow Hand, Yurup, another gray one, Native Dancer-Where are the ones with breeding...
PH.D. REQUIREMENTS. We are not suggesting that every Ph.D. in English should have to compose a passable sonnet-though that might be more sensible than requiring him to read Anglo-Saxon. What we are suggesting is that nobody should get a Ph.D. in English who has not tried to write a sonnet...
...Saxon generally presents the more auspicious vehicles; it favors films based on the works of established authors. T.H. White, Joyce, Pasternak did well, but The Bible didn't sell. Around the corner, the Gary is older, dingier, a bit more stodgy. It usually sticks with Films for the Entire Family. Although a muddy mural in the lobby purports to depict everyone from Socrates to Tolstoy to Thoreau, the pictures shown at the Gary are more akin to Margaret Mitchell and Hugh Lofting...
Simultaneously, the movie industry was staging a comeback. Attendance, which had dropped off sharply after the war, began to increase slowly after the turn of the decade. In 1956, the Saxon, formerly a legitimate stage theatre known as the Majestic, opened with a 70 mm. Todd-AO production of Oklahoma! A year later, the Gary introduced itself with Gigi. Road shows of that magnitude became the foundation of Sack's enterprises. Last year, nine road shows accounted for 43 per cent of gross admissions. Movies may not have become better, but they had become profitable...