Eliot

[el-ee-uht, el-yuht]

noun

1. Charles William, 1834–1926, U.S. educator: president of Harvard University 1869–1909.

2. George Mary Ann Evans, 1819–80, English novelist.

3. John the Apostle of the Indians, 1604–90, American colonial missionary.

4. Sir John, 1592–1632, English statesman.

5. T(homas) S(tearns) 1888–1965, British poet and critic, born in the U.S.: Nobel Prize 1948.

6. a male given name, form of Elias.

Eliot

/ ˈɛlɪət /

noun

1. George, real name Mary Ann Evans. 1819–80, English novelist, noted for her analysis of provincial Victorian society. Her best-known novels include Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Middlemarch (1872)

2. Sir John. 1592–1632, English statesman, a leader of parliamentary opposition to Charles I

3. T ( homas ) S ( tearns ). 1888–1965, British poet, dramatist, and critic, born in the US His poetry includes Prufrock and Other Observations (1917), The Waste Land (1922), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). Among his verse plays are Murder in the Cathedral (1935), The Family Reunion (1939), The Cocktail Party (1950), and The Confidential Clerk (1954): Nobel prize for literature 1948

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Neither is especially surprising — “in their beginning is their end,” to switch up a line of Eliot — though they do provide some suspense and twists along the way.

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He approached the draft version of “The Waste Land” by Eliot with a pair of scissors, and returned with modernism’s emblem.

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Kids walked to the local Thrifty ice cream shop, to Altadena Elementary and Eliot Middle School.

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Eliot, and Hopkins will read some of those for the audio release.

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"Seeing it up close, you get a sense of the speed and the power which you don't get on TV. It was incredible," says Caspar Eliot, a 36-year-old fan from London.

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