Word: saxonism
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...Little Ed-and a man who sometimes wonders sadly if he will really find salvation through his hobby: hand-hewing baseball bats. Author Newman's sentences are almost too elegant; his suburban lanes go "wandering, gutterless, glistening in heat or rain, taking gasping names-forged Indian, appropriated Anglo-Saxon, elated misnomers." His satire, however, is subtle and precise, as when he sums up his hero in one exquisitely sly little slide-away line: "I never had a chance to be a stranger myself...
...FOOD. The custom of three full meals a day has been established only since 1890. Anglo-Saxon tradition knew only two meals-breakfast and dinner-and in the 16th century, dinner was eaten at 11 a.m. While discussing diets, the rabbi rejects the notion that the Jewish and Moslem prohibition against pork started because of fear of food poisoning. The pig was taboo from earliest times because it was worshiped by primitive peoples who also sacrificed it to their idols and ate it in sacred meals. This made Jews, in their passion for monotheism, reject...
...world of Off-Broadway seems an improbable setting for Alfred, the world of Anglo-Saxon epics would appear even more so. Why Beowulf for a would-be dramatist...
...deliberately chose it to be that way. I wanted to go into a field where I wouldn't be too self-conscious about modern literature. I didn't want to use all my energies explaining dramatic techniques rather than doing them." He switched to Anglo-Saxon thesis work after abandoning an 18th Century project. "I was supposed to edit the papers of an 18th Century Earl who was a friend of Swift and Pope. But they usually consisted of 'I dined with Mr. Pope and Dean Swift last night. I was in my usual good form.' Absolutely nothing about Swift...
...married Volodymyr Monomakh, Grand Prince of Kiev. The line then meanders through many monarchies-Hungarian, Aragonese, French-and finally back to Britain at the time of Edward II, whose brutal murder in 1327 provided a gory conclusion to Christopher Marlowe's biographical play. To Britons of Saxon descent who may still harbor resentment over the Norman Conquest, the fact that their Queen shares brave Harold Godwinson's blood can only come as a relief...