Word: scottishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edwin Muir, Scottish poet and critic, will deliver the first of this year's Charles Eliot Norton lectures tonight. His talk, entitled "The Ballads: The Natural Estate," will start at 8:30 p.m. in New Lecture Hall...
...education came through osmosis," the poet remarks. Indeed, his writing still reflects the atmosphere of his childhood home on the Orkney Islands off Scotland, where "there was no great distinction between the ordinary and the fabulous." Leaving this peaceful habitat, Muir moved first to the Scottish mainland and then, in 1919, to London. Yet he still had not found either his art or his happiness. It was only after several months of psychotherapy, he recalls, that his "vague fears were quite gone...
LIBERATED FRANCE, by Catherine Gavin (292 pp.; St. Martin's; $5), is a concise, highly readable history (1944-53) in which De Gaulle is often the villain, France herself always the heroine. Able Scottish Historian Gavin, who has a sharp gift of phrase and a keen eye for the human touch, can marshal statistics and evoke a spring mood in Paris with equal grace...
...countenance, Kelsall continues his speech: "The lances of chivalry are being put away. Gunpowder sits where the judges were. History is preparing a new sort of world, Durward: cruel and political, thoughtful, violent. Louis XI of France is its symbol. If you're to match him, my Scottish cavalier, you may have to restrain your more glorious impulses." Since glory is box office, Taylor is in trouble. Things come to a head one night when "The Spider King" (Robert Morley), as history knows him, sits spinning his political web. "We are about to embark on a foul venture...
Ever since a band of Scottish settlers discovered in 1812 that early-maturing varieties of wheat from their native highlands would grow and ripen in Manitoba's short summers, the wheat crop has made the difference between prosperity or hard times for Canada's three prairie provinces. Last week, with bins and elevators brimming from the fourth fine harvest in five years, the threat of acute financial crisis hung incongruously over the prairies. Reason: the inability of Canada's National Wheat Board to sell the accumulated surplus at a price the farmers are willing to take...