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Died. Dorothy Shakespear Pound, 87, forbearing widow of Poet Ezra Pound, with whom she shared his triumphs and eccentricities-and her annuity-from 1914 to 1960; near Cambridge, England. She met Pound in pre-World War I London and introduced him to members of her circle, including W.B. Yeats. She designed several of her husband's books and magazines in Paris, and was the mother of Pound's son Omar. During World War II she shared her home and her husband with Concert Pianist Olga Rudge, who had borne Pound a daughter. Dorothy Pound followed her husband...
...bastard child, Mary is the daughter of Pound and the American violinist Olga Rudge who, after two years of living with Pound, supplanted his legal wife, Dorothy Shakespear...
Last February, the Department accepted unanimously most of the recommendations of a joint faculty-student committee to change the requirements of the Junior Examination, Accordingly, students who have already passed course examinations in the Bible. Shakespear. Milton, and Chaucer, or are currently enrolled in such courses, no longer need to be reexamined on this material. In order to give instant relief to the present junior class, these changes were made effective this year...
...long been a tacit assumption of German scholarship that if something can be defined, it must therefore exist. The Herr Professors of the Teutonic school have never quite seen eye to eye with Shakespear's query, "What's in a name?" The name, time and again, is everything. The category is sacred, the appelation supreme...
...prove his case through numerology. Assuming that A equals one and B equals two, etc., he added BACON up to 33, found it "very significant" that in one passage of Part I of Henry IV in the First Folio, the name Francis appears 33 times. Another numerologist noted that SHAKESPEAR has four vowels and six consonants. He then turned to the 46th Psalm, declared that the 46th word from the beginning was SHAKE and the 46th from the end was SPEAR. His conclusion, according to the Friedmans: "Since Shakespeare wrote the Psalms, and Shakespeare was not the real Shakespeare...