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Presidential Medal of Freedom
Presidential Medal of Freedom, initially (1945–63) to honor government service, since 1963 has been given upon occasion to acknowledge contributions in the arts. Winners include Thornton Wilder and Edmund Wilson (1963); J. Frank Dobie, T.S. Eliot, Samuel Eliot Morison, Lewis ... Read more |
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John Eliot Gardiner
John Eliot Gardiner Conductor For the Record… Selected discography Sources Accomplished British conductor John Eliot Gardiner is noted for founding and directing the Monteverdi Choir in 1964 and its complement Monteverdi Orchestra in 1968. Although he conducted all types of music,... Read more |
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Sweeney
Sweeney, symbolic character in the poetry of T.S. Eliot, representing the vulgar but vital force of life, particularly in modern man. He is introduced in Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service (1918) as a contrast to the febrile presbyters. In Sweeney Among the Nightingales (1918) this ape‐like... Read more |
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Poetry A Magazine of Verse
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (1929–), founded at Chicago by Harriet Monroe and edited by her until 1936. Later editors have included Karl Shapiro and John Frederick Nims. Long the major journal exclusively devoted to poetry, and the precursor of many other little magazines, Poetry has had... Read more |
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The Waste Land
Waste Land, The, poem on the theme of the sterility and chaos of the contemporary world by T.S. Eliot, published in 1922. This most widely known expression of the despair of the postwar era has as a structural framework the symbolism of certain fertility myths that reputedly formed the pagan origins... Read more |
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Charles Eliot
ELIOT, CHARLES (1834–1926) During Charles Eliot's forty-year tenure as president of Harvard, he helped transform the relatively small college into a modern university and became a leading spokesman for Progressive educational reform in America. The son of a prominent Bostonian... Read more |
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The Cocktail Party
Cocktail Party, The, verse play by T.S. Eliot, produced in 1949, published in 1950.At his cocktail party, Edward Chamberlayne tries to conceal the fact that his wife Lavinia has left him, but he is found out by his mistress Celia; talented, lonely Peter Quilpe; and a mysterious stranger, the... Read more |
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Elliot
Elliot ♂ Transferred use of the surname, itself derived from a medieval (Norman French) masculine given name. This was a diminutive of Elie, the Old French version of Elias. It is borne by the American actor Elliott Gould (b. 1938 as Elliot Goldstein), and has been fairly popular since... Read more |
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Merton
Merton outer borough (1991 pop. 161,800) of Greater London, SE England. The area is largely residential with some industry, including tanning and the manufacture of silk and calico prints, varnish and paint, and toys. An annual fair dating from Elizabethan times is held within the borough at... Read more |
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Sir John Eliot
Sir John Eliot 1592-1632, English parliamentary leader. He was a staunch defender of parliamentary liberties. Eliot instituted (1626) the impeachment proceedings against Charles I's favorite, the 1st duke of Buckingham , and joined Sir Edward Coke and others in promoting the Petition of Right ,... Read more |
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