Word: tinkered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inhaling deeply after the last pink ballot had been totted up, Miss Irene Tinker, Radcliffe '49, sighed deeply yesterday afternoon and then announced that her foetal magazine was still nameless. The reason, she said, was that Tuesday's balloting was much too close to be decisive...
After ten days of reading the heavy brainwork of fifty Harvard entrants, Miss Irene Tinker, Radcliffe '49, said in a small voice last night that entries for the contest to name her pet project, an unborn literary magazine for 'Cliffedwellers, were now officially closed...
England's modern John Bunyan is a wise, witty, sad-faced Fellow of Oxford's Magdalen College named Clive Staples Lewis. Like the Inspired Tinker, Anglican Convert Lewis (The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce) writes of the trials and troubles of man's soul in a sinful world; to dramatize his theology he peoples his stories with a menagerie of sprites, devils, and fabulous monsters. Lewis' latest: That Hideous Strength (Macmillan, $3), third volume of a trilogy* begun in 1943. It is loaded with enough spiritual wisdom for a dozen sermons...
...peasant, in the same way that has made his "Playboy" a modern classic. And the Idler cast's performances go completely beyond the amateur level. It is difficult to describe or choose between the interpretations of Seabury G. Quinn '47 as the venial priest, Miss Nora Millard as the tinker's sharp-witted bride-to-be, Miss Elaine Limpert as his philosophical, besotted mother, and Charles Raphael as the tinker himself...
...Tinker's Wedding" more than makes up for the sins of its companion-piece. Loud huzzahs go to Mrs. Howe for one superb accomplishment and another brave try, and to Miss Lynn Baker for some amazingly imaginative and accomplished set and costume-designing...