Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Timson is an abortionist. She is also the heroine of Marguerite Steen's successor to her best-selling The Sun Is My Undoing (TIME, Aug. 18, 1941). Author Steen's Mrs. Timson is as "healthy, earthy" as "an Elizabethan innkeeper's wife." She becomes an abortionist only when she realizes that it is the best way to give her own two children a good start in life. (She never tells them about her profession; they think it is real estate...
Taking refuge in Dublin in 1571, Campion wrote a distinguished little history of Ireland. Waugh the stylist quotes with delight several sweet and thrifty Elizabethan sentences about the country which "lieth aloof in the West Ocean, in proportion like an egg. . . ." As a seminarist at Douai in Flanders, Campion decided to accept the military discipline of the new and militant Society of Jesus. In 1580, he received what amounted to a martyr's orders: to return to England as a missionary. After Pope Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth, her government had made it high treason, punishable with death...
...five he will take with him: He's Gone Away, an old North Carolina love song; Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair, an Elizabethan ballad still sung in the Southern mountains; the square dancers' Old Joe Clark; the spiritual Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho; the cowboys' Old Chisholm Trail...
...Such improvements have preoccupied the Strachey clan before. John's eminent cousin, the late Historian Lytton Strachey, wrote of Elizabethan Sir John Harington: "The gay young man looked about for new worlds to conquer. . . . Suddenly inspired, he invented the water-closet...
Richard Dyer-Bennet: Love Songs (Disc, 6 sides). Wistful love, Elizabethan style. Guitarist Dyer-Bennet's six songs include Westryn Wind and Blow the Candles Out ("Roll me in your arms, love"). Performance: excellent...