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Poems: A Cooking Egg

by T. S. Eliot Sweeney ErectLe DirecteurA Cooking Egg En l'an trentiesme de mon aage Que toutes mes hontes j'ay beucs ... Pipit sate upright in her chair Some distance from…

1979–1980 Obie Awards

PlaywritingLee Breuer, A Prelude to Death in VeniceChristopher Durang, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for YouRomulus Linney, TennesseeRoland Muldoon, Full Confessions of a SocialistJeff…

Poem: A Cooking Egg

Poem 3 Poem 5 A Cooking Egg En l'an trentiesme de mon aage Que toutes mes hontes j'ay beucs ... Pipit sate upright in her chair Some distance from where I was sitting; Views of…

Brewer's: Sweet Voices

Backers, votes. Coriolanus speaks with contempt of the sweet voices of the Roman mob voters. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894SweetheartSweet Singers A B C…

Brewer's: Bisson

or Bisen [blind] is the Anglo-Saxon bisen. Shakespeare (Hamlet, ii. 2) speaks of bisson rheum (blinding tears), and in Coriolanus, ii. 1, “What harm can your bisson conspectuities glean…

Brewer's: Amazonian Chin

(An) A beardless chin, like that of a woman warrior. When with his Amazonian chin he drove The bristled lips before him. Shakespeare: Coriolanus, ii. 2. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…

Brewer's: Flutter the Dovecotes

(To). To disturb the equanimity of a society. The phrase occurs in Coriolanus. “The important movement in favour of a general school of law fluttered the dovecotes of the Inns of Court.” —…

Brewer's: Kam

Crooked. (Erse kaam, squmteyed.) Clean Kam, perverted into Kim Kam, means wholly awry, clean from the purpose. “This is clean kam—merely awry.” Shakespeare: Coriolanus, iii. 1. Source…

Brewer's: Blockhead

A stupid person; one without brains. The allusion is to a wig maker's dummy or tête à perruque, on which he fits his wigs. “Your wit will not so soon out as another man's will, `tis…