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...understand, and nothing but talk . . . To simulate Lady Brett, however, as long as she's in fashion, Shirley talks free and necks on a rigidly graduated scale . . . She can find no guidance anywhere . . . In literature her problem doesn't exist. The old novels are all about Jane Austen and Dickens heroines ... And the new novels are all more or less about Brett Ashley, who sleeps with any guy who really insists, but is a poetic pure tortured soul at heart. This leaves Shirley squarely in the middle. What...
...veteran of the Hunt-Hillary climb) remembered their manners and halted a few feet from the summit (28,146 ft.) of Mt. Kanchenjunga to avoid offending local gods. Even so, they earned credit for conquering the world's third highest peak (after Everest, 29,028 ft., and Godwin Austen or K2, 28,250 ft.), the highest mountain until then unclimbed...
...Screwtape Letters) Lewis has joined a campaign to give the cliche its honorable discharge. If there is a Divide, says he in his recently published inaugural lecture, it is "the [division] in the history of the West that . . . divides the present from, say, the age of Jane Austen and Scott...
Gardiner law club won a unanimous judges' decision over the Griswold club in the last of this year's Ames competition quarterfinals held last night in Austen Hall. The victory enables Gardiner to enter the semi-finals which will be held next fall...
...last of this year's Ames quarter-finals will be held tonight at 8 p.m. in the Austen Courtroom, Griswold and Gordner clubs will debate a movie coachship case...