Word: tristram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, beyond his poems, it is The Egoist that stands out from all Meredith's works as the successful testament of his creed. It is also the key book in Biographer Stevenson's joining of the chain of intellectual comedy which runs approximately from Sterne's Tristram Shandy, through Peacock's novels, down via The Egoist to much of Oscar Wilde, Shaw and even the early Aldous Huxley. And yet, Meredith remains as freakishly separate from these other links in the literary chain as does Thorstein Veblen in the chain of social philosophers-and for much...
...soda jerker, teacher, typist, U.N. delegate, WAC. *Less inhibited were some noted teenagers of the past. Says Kinsey: "Helen was twelve years old when Paris carried her off from Sparta Daphnis was 15 and Chloe was 13. Heloi'se was 18 when she fell in love with Abelard. Tristram was 19 when he first met Isolde. Juliet was 1'ess than 14 when Romeo made love to her. All of these youths, the great lovers of history, would be looked upon as immature adolescents and identified as juvenile delinquents if they were living today...
...Grossman became so fascinated that he spent all his holidays translating one of Machado's best novels, Epitaph of a Small Winner. U.S. readers who share Translator Grossman's enthusiasm for ironic wit and pessimism can enjoy an unusual book that now & then resembles Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Voltaire's Candide...
...begun to look hopeless, both romantically and dance-wise, the indiscreet lovers drink to each other, and go into a magic-potion trance. The stage darkens, the ruins of Tintagel fly up, the dusters, derbies and veils come off, and in a flash the trippers have turned into Tristram, Iseult, King Mark & Co., all revealed in brilliant medieval array...
...legendary story works itself out in a lyrical dance duet by the lovers (Diana Adams, Jacques d'Amboise), a sword fight between Tristram and the cuckolded king (Francisco Moncion). Then, as Tristram and Iseult lie adying, the stage darkens again, the ruins of Tintagel descend, and the dancers don their dusters, derbies and veils. They wander off, wondering whether it was a dream...