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...himself the greatest living practitioner of the Victorian novel. The hero is that Mauve Decade martyr, the unconventional artist struggling hopelessly for recognition from a conventional world. Its "bohemian" artists and its fusty gentry are furnished forth with stock-company props and costumes dragged from literature's dustiest attic, and Physician Cronin uses every cliche of this oft-told tale with the almost touching innocence of new discovery, right down to the mustiest of them all-the notion that a man cannot possibly be a genuine genius unless he starves in a garret...
...long day passes into night and they have all tried their escapes, they come together again to one another. The memories--Mary's wedding-dress, Edwin Booth's praise for James years ago--lie in the attic trunk above, whispering waste and despair. Love has imposed a mighty toll upon their lives, but in the end it binds them together, wracked by pity and fear. Young Edmund's hopeless citation of Nietzsche, "God is dead: of His pity for man hath God died," is forgotten. O'Neill has forgiven the Tyrones as we must forgive all mankind...
...pieces of wall from old Harvard buildings are safely sealed in the University's orderly archives, things are different a few miles down the river. The Massachusetts State Archives' collection rests now in boxes and on the floor of a leaky, unventilated, rodent-haunted room up in the attic of the State House. The rat-food includes the original 1629 Massachusetts Bay Colony Charter, many letters and documents relating to the Constitutional Convention, and thousands of other items...
...Sawyer of the Lincoln family, the White House was a huge rumpus room. They found the central bell system and sent the White House staff scurrying up and down stairs in a dither over the President's safety. The "dear codgers" built a sled in the attic out of an old chair, with a copy of the Congressional Record for a seat, and improvised snow flurries from a binful of visiting cards left by guests...
Down from the Attic. Soon begrimed, and lighted only by 100-watt bulbs, Sargent's murals have long escaped the attention of most Boston Museum visitors...