Word: shakesperian
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Declaring that "the field of Shakesperian nomenclature is wide open, and affords an inviting pasture to browse in," Harry Levin '33, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, yesterday afternoon meandered through several hundred puns and allusions he finds in the names of the Bard's characters...
...pieces attempt to represent what six authors--Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, Wilde, Odets and Williams--might have done with commonplace dramatic themes: love and letters, cuckolds and cash-on-the-line weddings. The "typical Shakesperian clown engages in a "typical" mixup of missives. The deranged Blanche du Bois figure in the Williams parody imagines a Spanish pen pal to take her from the beer-and-beatings world of her Stanley Kowalski type mate...
With much of the work on its fall production of "Henry IV, Part 1," already behind it, the VTW suggests that the new organization adopt the bawdy Shakesperian comedy as its first offering...
...game, and should the banner of Green be unfurled Fair Harvard's buildings will not collapse. 'Tis no nuclear fission, no Hiroshima. Nay, no Shakesperian tragedy. The sun will shine as brightly Sunday--Lest perchance should rain come down like Niobe's tears...
Prefaced by a characteristic Ryan cliché, "Through the Pages Following Hereafter Pass the Most Beautiful Checker Games in the World," and sprinkled with un-Shakesperian asides, he unfolds 232 pages of diagrams and diagnoses. He also expounds for pages on three of the most treacherous openings ever devised: the Edinburgh Single, a deciding factor in more match and tournament games than any other known opening; the Octopus, whose "manifold tentacles . . . have ensnared many of the game's ablest critics"; and Oliver's Twister, a baffler ever since Manhattan's Oliver J. Mauro laid down its basic...