Word: shakespeareanisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancestors arrived on the Mayflower. He learned his letters in bookish Boston, graduated at the head of his class ('82) from Harvard, taught Latin at Phillips Exeter. Thereafter for 48 years he was Kittredge of Harvard, Shakespearean and Chaucerian scholar, authority on witchcraft and Norse religion, one of the last Victorians. But above all, "Kitty" was Harvard. When he died last week, part of Harvard died with...
Despite continuing headaches, Traffic Victim Fritz Kreisler was able to leave his bed for a few minutes each day, listened to symphonies on the radio....Massive Hendrik Willem van Loon (The Story of Mankind) went to work for the Government, boosting defense bonds....Shakespearean Maurice Evans became a full-fledged American citizen....A daughter was born to Radio Songstress Benay Venuta and Armand S. Deutsch....James Aloysius Farley, 53, celebrated his birthday at a Giants-Dodgers ball game: the Dionne Quintuplets, 7, celebrated at home...
...foremost Shakespearean scholars in the country, "Kitty" aptly settled the "who wrote Shakespeare" question by remarking, "Certainly I'll admit Bacon wrote Shakespeare if someone will tell me who wrote Bacon...
...opened like a scene in Shakespeare. In the foreground were the citizens, restless and murmuring. They clustered against the marble walls, around the useless columns of the Senate caucus chamber. The huge room, musty, ill-lighted, full of rococo carvings and decorations, looked like a stage set for a Shakespearean stock company. As you went in, you could see only the citizens, crowding together, trying to see over the heads of the people in front, wisecracking about what was happening. There were 1,200 of them in a room built to hold 500. The blur of their comments rose...
Harley Granville-Barker, noted English dramatist and Shakespearean critic, is giving currently a series of six lectures on Shakespeare's "Othello," as visiting lecturer in Professor F. O. Matthiessen's course. English 23, on Shakespeare. The lectures will be open to members of the University on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, this week, and next, in Emerson Hall D. at 12 o'clock...