Word: beowulf
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...undergraduate in the English department can get a comprehensive, if disjointed, picture of English Literature. By carefully mapping his program, allowing for courses that skip a year of two between meetings, and hoping that no professor decides to take a three year holiday, the English concentrator can study from Beowulf to the present. But he can take no course that will give him a more rapid, unified and consecutive view of England's literary history...
Pictured above are Charisma (Ann Bregstein '53) and the play's authors, John G. Benedict '54 (Beowulf) and Kenneth J. Reckford '54 (Durkheim...
Charisma, the heroine, wanted to get routinized and find a husband (Beowulf). The puzzled Durkheim kept running from the idealist to the Materialist polo muttering, "Oh, God. I mean, Oh, society." Weber, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Grendel's Mother also rushed about the stage spouting garbled political theories. They blew horns, ate bananas, and emerged from a trap door...
...concentrators who wanted a background in English literature once took English 1. They don't any more. English 1 attempts to cover almost every English author from Beowulf to Beerbohm; it plummets through a thousand-year time span at a pace which leaves Shakespeare and Milton two lectures apiece. Examinations stress spot passages and details about the authors. When a man is through with English 1, he knows that "Proud-pied April dressed in all his trim" is from Sonnet XCVIII, and two semesters' worth of similar facts. This mass of detail may be an essential basis for English concentrators...
...month after graduation, she worked in Stern's Department Store. Then she got a job teaching at Manhattan's Todhunter school for girls. She taught Cavalier and Puritan poetry and early English literature, "with Beowulf tucked in." In seven years she became one of the best teachers the school had, and when she went on to Columbia for her degree (John Bigelow was written for her Ph.D. dissertation), she did so well that other teaching appointments began to come easy. She was the first woman in the history department of New York's City College, went next...