Word: weir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Competing in the gymkhana, Peter L. V. Hutchinson '63, driving an Austin-Healey Sprite, took first in the small sports class, with HMSC President Peter G. Sachs '61 following for a close second in his Porsche 1600. Hutchinson and Sachs turned in the meet's fastest times. William E. Weir '61 placed second in the small touring class with his Volkswagen, guaranteeing the Club its victory...
...other Club entry, a Volkswagen driven by William E. Weir '61, romped to an easy win in the small car class, finishing a good 12 seconds over the second place winner...
This was "Twentieth Century Folk Mass," the product of one Fr. Geoffrey Beaumont, which has recently been recorded by the highly competent orchestra of Frank Weir (who is a sort of British Percy Faith). The Anglican service has been provided with music more usually associated with the world of TV variety shows and popular erotic ballads. Fr. Beaumont professes to write in the spirit of the old polyphonists, who wove popular tunes of their day into their masses. Most people in England, he argues, are responsive only to the kind of music purveyed on the mass-consumption mediums. What better...
...tutor. Nabokov's Dozen lacks Lolita's pun-prone pyrotechnics. But it shares with it Nabokov's fascinating gift for translating the machine-tooled commonplaces of U.S. life into a surreal landscape of fantasy, a kind of Poe-like, gadget-haunted region of Weir. Thus a soda-fountain stool violently revolves into a "tall mushroom," a newly screwed-in electric bulb lights up with "the hideous instancy of a dragon's egg hatching in one's bare hand." It is the strength of Nabokov's imagination that makes the characters in these stories live...
...Virginians, Lovel the Widower and Philip he merely demonstrated the half-truth of a later dictum that "all authors are musical-boxes which play a limited number of tunes." And yet. at the time of his death he was, like Dickens with Edwin Drood and Stevenson with Weir of Hermiston, midway through what remained a brilliant fragment-Denis Duval, Dickens considered it "the best of all his works...