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When each day's work is done, Paddy Swift lays down his brush to spend the evening talking, drinking, going to frequent movies. Says he: "I like sitting in the dark among people. It gives me the same sort of pleasant sensation that I get from a hot bath." It relieves the tension...
...easy to live outside the rooms. On every floor there is the customary smoker, with a kitchenette tossed in. According to Heddy Schumacher, the housemother, no one has yet complained of any icebox raids. On each floor there are also drying rooms with laundry facilities, and two bath-rooms, with two baths and six showers. One freshman complained that as she was sitting next to a tub on the first day of the term wearing only a man's shirt the door suddenly opened and a man walked through, pausing only to give her a bewildered glance. That occasion, however...
...first tub to be constructed of sheet lead and Nicaragua mahogany back in 1842, how he built a pump with which a team of six Negroes lifted water into a tank in his house, how he ran a heating pipe through his chimney, and finally took the first modern bath...
...discovered that, to act in the college plays, she had to get high grades. She got them. She also alternated between living like a hermit and making a public show of herself. Sometimes she would wait until the rest of the dormitory was asleep before she would take a bath. But once, she took a bath in the library fountain and rolled herself dry on the grass. She got away with that one. But when she was caught smoking a cigarette (her first), she was suspended, briefly...
Chaucer, Coghill observes, delighted to silence his own voice and speak with the tongues of characters as varied and opinionated as the Knight, the Wife of Bath and the Clerk of Oxford. It is this multilingual mixture which makes the Tales a "concise portrait of an entire nation, high and low, old and young, male and female, lay and clerical, learned and ignorant." To revive this effect, Coghill decided to modernize the people's looks as well as their language, to suggest their old status by putting them in modern context. Where Chaucer, for example, says of the carpenter...