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3 Vigorous In body (8).
7 Month (5).
Vex (8).
10 Colour (8).
13 Naval personnel (7),
15 Borders (4).
17 Arbiter (7).
1 Hurled (7).
20 fake (4).
21 Waited (7).
20 Giggle (8).
(5),
27 Assembled (8).
30 Matches
21
29 Literary composition (8).
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SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1952,
Puzzle
DOWN
1 Officer (5).
2 Something special (5).
3 Bring into. iine (5).
+ Deposited (4).
5 Ticklish problem (0),
6 Kind of food (8).
Be repentant (0).
11 Proportion (5).
12 Relative (5).
14 Calm (6).
15 Core (5).
10 Confused fight (5).
10 On time. (f).
19 Struggle (8).
22 Crest (5).
23 Details (5).
24 Clothe (5).
25 Inclination (4).
Bebead, 5
I YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD, --- Across: Taunt, 8 Peers, 3 Barrel, 10 Usher, 11 Dense.
12 Lair, 13 Stays, 16 Behest, 18 Leases, 20 Scent, 22 Bass, 23 Siems, 25 Down: 1 Bogle, 26 Itches, 27 Grate, 28 Penny, 20 Spades, Bibulous, 2 Horrible, 3 Aped, 4 Deletes, 5 Trusses, Assets, 7 Needy, 14 Attuched, 15 Subsists, 18 Battery, 17 Hermits, 19 Ensign, 21 Claso, 24 Step.
YOU ARE GOING TO SOME DEFINITE PLACE BUT SOON FIND YOURSELF HURRYING.YOU FEEL VERY WEAK AND HAVE TO HOLO ON TO THE RAILINGS, THE
ROAD HAS BECOME A
STEEP HILL
S. ELIOT
sense or nonsense?
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HOMAS. STEARNS ELIOT, American-born poet, dramatist and critle, is immensely famous and very obscure. In his most celebrated (although his best). play The Cocktail says that if Ellot thinks Party, there is a middle- meant Adam, then he aged busybody named Julia wrong. and a mysterious paychin- trist named Sir Harcourt Reilly. Like the rest of the characters, they are sym- bolic figures. But symbolic of what? Opinions have differed among Ellot'a nd- mirers.
he
is
Bafted by Sweeney and his like, the exasperated render may be tempted to throw the pooris away-and mina n line of piercing -beauty like:
Till the wind shake a thousand whispers from the yew.
Does really matter that to you "yew" may mean one thing
Eliot another? and to
What matters
ters in the precise but tenta- tive veran, in which each line geems to be subject to revision by the next. With its learning. obscurity, irreverence and coo sional eplendour, it has done more than anything else to nato is not the only difficulty he and form the thought of a experiences as a playwright generation. writing in veras. For what kind of verse will a modern audience tolerate from A modern dramatist?
In this new essay, Eliot humorously shows that the obscurity of his symbolism
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And what has he sought Eliot has sought to evolve teach? The emptiness of a rhythm close to the pagan world. The nerd for reli- gon. The claim of the Christian
War came and gave him an navaj commission.
American Family fortunes declined and
drove him
to schoolmastering at Highgate. He ilt out for the department of Lloyds foreign
work was Bank hecause the caster. Was doing well in th
when Hugh Walpole City pushed Jilm into publishing, where ho did better. He has z good business mind. Tay family tiid not sem from. New England for nothing.
In the mid-twenties ho came Lond, his
famous with The Waste Arst major poem, Every undergraduate discovered (after Ellot):
I prow, old.
I grow old. I shall wear the bottoms of
my trousers ralled. The turning-point in his lite como in 1927 when;
1. He become British (more accurately English) u nationality, and
An American teenager wrote to him about Julia. "She is your dream girl, Isn't she? I enclose a five natural stresses of contem- religion. Not all have accepted Bishop of Oxford at Cuddesdon,
cent stamp for reply."
Said James Thurber: "I am not so stupid as to be lieve that the cocktail party
in
The Cocktail Party is netunity n cocktail party. What do you think it is?"
Eliot is disappointed with his admirers for failing to realise that the psychiatrist is really Hercules.
But sometimca Eliot's ad- mirers think they know his meaning better than he does. Once he wrote:
The whole world is our
hospital
porary speech. One result is the teaching. that, as the land-lady sald of The Cocktail Party: shouldn't have thought
would go in. Southsea. hear it's all in prose,"
Only the other day a school- "master at a fashionable girls it school in Brookline, Boston, was
I dismissed for reading to a senior
class
#
Ella's. One
was "dumb- founded," another "humiliated" to heer Eliot's Journey of the Magi fram a master engaged to lesch "business English,"
In his poems, as in his
Eliot commented patiently. verse-dramas there are too "Oh dear, this is mest benighted. many characters who need Perhaps we must wolt for and elude-explanation. Christianity to reach Brooklins." He himself was born in St. For instance, Sweeney, a
Louis, Missour!, 63 years ago, personage who often crops being brought up in smart Van- up-is he a symbol of the deventer Place, urdinary man or (as some
His father was the well-to-do Endowed by the ruined allege) the portrait of a owner of a brickworks, who had
millionaire
Boston-Iriah ex-pug named wanted to be a minister but was -explaining that the "ruin- Steve O'Donnell who gave prevented by an impediment of sprech The Lomily Was ́ed millionaire" is Adam. Eliot a black eye during his Unitarian, from
New
England, with But one learned interpreter undergraduate days.
academic associations. Ellot was the youngest, frailest of seven, others of whom have won dhtinction: brother as archaeologist, sister prison vialtor.
THEN SOMETIMES YOU HAVE WIT YOUR CLOTHES AND
ARE NAKED
--THIS DREAM MEANS:
A dream of acute "funk."
adety about a job you
You hurry to a definite place tyou are “pressY Ing" on the job). Buddenly you feel werk. have to hold on, the road aterpen: the 200 BETTOS ENOTE and more dúnculs, you seem more and more incapable).
* At last you ste leis naked; Le, you are re- vealed as you feel you aro-hopelessly 10- adequate.
Κάνειες. even anxiety severe does not mean you will fail: you may be over-critical of yourself or too much may depend on the result.
Talk over with « 'friend who knows your strengths and weakness and can be bath frank and encouraging.
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2. Was confirmed by the
He had become on Anglo- Catholic,
He likes. Kipling (as poet), cata (as cats), cheese (nigh). Dislikes the theatro ("It Inter- feres with one's meals"), Milton (as man).
Ho is deliberate in' speech judicial with every sentence, seems to bring in a verdict at guilty with a strong recom- mendation to mercy. Does not so much listen to others 24 nр-
to Pear
withdraw himatif courteously from
Interior for conversation. Has a gift sedate conviviality. Is not ubove .sly jake at the expense. of the congregation.
an
Winnings: A handsome gold plaque illuminated diploma and cheque for £11,016 - 8s, 5d. in Swedish kronor which my lawyer tells me is free of in- come tax...” ie, the Nobel Prize, Also the Order of Merit.
At Harvard, he sought to discipline his shyness by coing This is the way the world ends Most quoted ore-atomic lines? to dances and taking boxing Not with a bang but a whimper. lessons in O'Donnell's nasium, Elegant in
Kym- costume,
His fe-task is "Trying to
with a gift for naughty verse, he use words, and every attempt went on to Paris, London,
is a wholly new start, and Oxford, before the 1019-16 war different kind of failure." England was Impossible. "A
E
people satindled with such dis- "Poetry and Drama 19 a gusting food is not civilised." frank, down-to-minute progress Oxford?
"Very pretty, but I report on what he himself re- don't like to be dead. Let us gards na a semi-failure, his fly to a land where there are no successive attempts to invade Medicl prints, nothing but the modern theatre with poetic concubinage and conversation." dramas and a prophetic message.
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