Word: crit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since Waugh's own death, his reputation has been skillfully embalmed by the Joyboys of journalism and lit-crit. More precisely, there are two reputations: the artist and the man. Waugh the writer needs little touching up. Such novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Black Mischief, A Handful of Dust, Scoop and that masterpiece of World War II, the Sword of Honour trilogy, established him as one of the century's finest satirists. The Diaries underscore just how closely Waugh's fiction followed his life, from high jinks at public school to the hallucinations chronicled...
...analyzes the book and its author (both as Charles Dodgson, Oxford math teacher, and under his pen name, Lewis Carroll). The range of subjects and types of criticism reflects an alarming degree of adult interest in Carrolliana. If there is one book that should not fall victim to Lit Crit, it's Alice...
...convention has grown up," he notes in the kind of obiter dictum that grows more frequent as the book progresses, "that biography and literary criticism are separate activities which must never be associated." The biography, certainly, is all there. But I, at least, would have liked even more lit crit than Sykes provides. There is precious little serious comment on Waugh, and when Sykes does turn to the nuts and bolts of criticism he proves himself both competent and perceptive...
...term in Brookline--provide easily available information. Planned Parenthood in Newton, unlike the clinics, does not perform any abortions, but it can provide the most complete information--through pamphlets, by phone and through a counseling service--on everything available in the area. Harvard generally refers people to the "Crit" because, Bisbee says, "appointments can be made quickly and they have the best counseling and support facilities." However, Charles Circle and Pre-term see the most women each month (nearly 900). All four of these clinics perform first-trimester abortions (up to 12, and sometimes 13 weeks) since a simple, vacuum...
Ricks and Embarassment. Christopher Ricks, the tall, affable English lit-crit mogul (who has finally managed to have himself translated from Bristol to Cambridge University) will speak in the Winthrop House JCR the day after school begins, April 8 at 8 p.m. The title of Ricks's lecture--seriously--is "Five Songs by Bob Dylan." Rumor has it Northrop Frye, in response, is considering adding a coda to his Norton Lectures on "The Secular Scripture" to be called "Myths of Ascent and Descent in 'Lay, Lady, Lay'." Such rumors, though, like so many scriptures themselves, may well be apocryphal...