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CASTLE UGLY by Mary Ellin Barrett. 255 pages. E. P. Dutton...
Woes & Wiles. Williston Bibb Barrett is an oversubtle Southerner who has lost the gift for action and adopted instead the stance of watcher, listener and wanderer. During his junior year at Princeton, he is overwhelmed by the mindless undergraduate decorum of the place and flees to New York, a room at the Y, and five years of psychoanalysis. Nights, he works three levels below ground as a humidification engineer for Macy's. Days, he plays up in Central Park at putting reality into perspective. He sets up a telescope and peeps at the passing show from behind a screen...
Part of the credit has to go to the translation director John Munger has chosen, a decidedly unstuffy version by David Barrett. Barrett has preserved the comedy's irreverence right down to a liberal sprinkling of puns, and he gives the cast a profusion of funny lines to exploit...
...more than 50 per cent of the questionnaires have been completed and returned. Barrett hopes to get at least a 90 per cent response through follow-up letters...
...Barrett's project is sponsored by a fellowship awarded him through the Boston University School of Medicine, and has the full sanction of Harvard administration...