Word: beowulf
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Among professors of English, the University of California's George R. Stewart is a rare bird. He can battle with Beowulf in Old English, discuss the drift of allegory in The Faerie Queene, or lecture gravely on the crime of the dangling participle...
...announcement of next year's courses of instruction have omitted Professor Robinson's name. Professor Magoun is slated to take over the Gurney Professor's courses on Beowulf and Historical English Grammar...
...first lecture was given by Fred N. Robinson, Gurney Professor of English Literature who spoke on Beowulf. The talks and reading are all of an informal nature and provide an opportunity for discussion...
...Grey's tireless riders of the purple sage, lone star rangers and wanderers of the wasteland, he decided, were interesting for a curious reason: They were like the heroes of some folk tale that had never quite got written. Nobody would compare the stories of Zane Grey to Beowulf, but before Beowulf there were probably generations of crude popular storytellers, handing on the same legends, gradually refining them, until eventually a poet appeared who could organize them into a unified work. Zane Grey's novels, Professor Whipple said, are such primitive legends of the old West-repetitious...
...Manchukuo as "Contemporary Political Fiction No. i" and Ethiopia as C. P. F. No. 2. "Ethiopia has about as much political reality today as Carthage-which the Italians also destroyed," wrote Mr. Gunther. "The 'Emperor' Haile Selassie is about as concrete a living political force today as Beowulf or General Grant. Yet the Ethiopians still send delegations to Geneva, the 'country' is considered a member of the League of Nations, and the great powers-except Italy, which seized it- appear still to recognize it as an independent state. Pure fiction...