Visiting with mother, friends in Dutch farmhouse in Pa., erudite little boy of 13 taken with carving on headboard of bed.
By Eugene Leuchtman and E. B. White The New Yorker, July 1 , 1933P. 8 Visiting with mother, friends in Dutch farmhouse in Pa., erudite little boy of 13 taken with carving on headboard of bed.
"The erudite body is a good body to have".
It was Mercer, however -- the laconically erudite Southern good ole' boy -- who drew "My Shining Hour" from Arlen, "This Time The Dream's On Me" and "Out of this World," along with a pair of torch songs that rank among the composer's crowning song achievements in Hollywood: "One For My Baby" and "Blues in the Night".
They are seduced by lavish praise for their comedy about a witty, erudite British headmaster of a boy's school, but their dream job quickly turns into a nightmare when the studio casts Matt LeBlanc, playing an exaggeration of himself, as the headmaster.
The Scene Stealers, a two-year-old company that performs in the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls, is the first to grapple with the musical, a story of a creature who is half boy and half bat -- an erudite and endearing bat, at that.
Like nearly every other elite prep school in the South, it had been the boarding school's tradition since its founding in 1916 that its teachers guide white boys toward its ideal of manhood — erudite, religious, resilient.
Holding the typed pages between finger and thumb, he said: "Old boy, this piece is not only informed but erudite.
That was why as a boy the image I had of a writer was the image of Updike, erudite, suave, turtlenecked, Harvard-y.
"The History Boys" — which has transferred to New York with the original British cast, including Frances de la Tour as Mrs. Lintott, a waspishly wise teacher, and Richard Griffiths as Hector, a hugely overweight, catholically erudite teacher of the old school — takes place in a 1980's state-run boys' secondary school caught in the midst of change.
Under the headline "Beryl's latest fiction", reporter Lucie Morris revealed that Beryl Bainbridge had upset the erudite audience at the King's Lynn literary festival by choosing the masterpiece As Flies to Wanton Boys by Rhoda L Cornstock as her favourite novel.
