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...SWEENIAD (66 pp.)-Myra Buttle -Sagamore...
...lifetime runs the risk of finding rude and irreverent remarks scribbled on the plinth. Such is the case of Britain's T. S. Eliot. Now he has had the ultimate accolade: a full-and fancy-dress parody. In the season's least subtle anagram, it is signed Myra Buttle; it represents the rebuttal to Eliot of a waspish and clever Cambridge lecturer in Far Eastern history named Victor Purcell (possibly, the publishers heavily hint, he had some distinguished anti-Eliot collaborators, including Robert Graves and C. Day Lewis). In Britain The Sweeniad-titled for Apeneck Sweeney, Eliot...
...Dunciad, Alexander Pope's genius and malice made Colley Cibber memorable ; in The Vision of Judgment, Byron made Southey immortal. But if the name of Victor Purcell-or Myra Buttle-is remembered in a hundred years it will be for the fact that he threw a dead cat at a living poet. Before The Sweeniad nears its inevitable conclusion ("This is the way that Sweeney ends. Not with a curse but a mutter"), the satire has fallen heavily among the bric-a-brac...
Funds from the sales provide penicillin, tuberculosis vaccine and milk for the world's needy children. Cards can be ordered from Chartrand and from Myra Joseph '59 in Whitman Hall...
Occupations: Professional Communist spies on the lam from the U.S., lately members of the U.S. network that included Jack and Myra Soble, Jacob Albam, George and Jane Zlatovski and U.S. Counterspy Boris Morros, specializing in recruiting likely U.S. prospects for Soviet espionage...