Word: tristram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Peter Tristram Coffin, poet and Bowdoin professor of English, who last week trod Longfellow's trail (in Brunswick's First Parish Church) and read a sesquicentennial poem of his own composition...
...Long-nosed, nonexistent authority on nasology, out of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy...
...Softy. To his friends and students, Wilbur Cross is "Uncle Toby," a nickname taken from the famous character in Sterne's Tristram Shandy who "would not harm a fly." The nickname is deceptive. The Connecticut Yankee as exemplified by ex-Governor Cross is not as taciturn as the Vermont Yankee. He is less inclined than the Boston Yankee to parade his sense of being, like the Lowells, just this side of God. He comes, of course, from "the land of steady habits''-though Uncle Toby sometimes likes to eat peas with his knife. A bit skeptical...
...gave Munch-Club readers: "Elizabeth and Sex by Lytton Scratchy, John Brown's Benny by Steve Brody, The Bridge of San Louis Bromfield by Ray Long, A Farewell to Farms by Mark van Doorman, How to be Happy: A Preface to Morons by Walter B. Pipkin, Pfui D., Tristram Coffin, a finespun obituary by Edwinson Arlington Cemetry, Black Majesty by Dark van Moron, The Life of Joseph Wood Peacock by his uncle Doc van Doren, and Training the Giant Pander by quaint old Trader van Horen." Concludes Satirist Wilson: "And there was also Granville van Arven and his League...
...Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy introduced high-strung sensibilities, tears, swoons...