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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe Magazine appeared the next year, with an imposing board of fourteen editors. It grew out of an English Club which had been in the habit of meeting to read aloud the best themes submitted during the week. The Magazine lasted until 1920, and printed Alumnae notes as well as prose and poetry compositions. The fiction was highly romantic and by modern standards quite naive. Most contributions seem to reflect the Radcliffe girl's longing for a Great Emotional Experience, and implies that a chaperoned walk from Shepard Street to Agassiz every day was not particularly exciting...
...knowing children to pick up the pieces. At first, of course, there isn't any woman, but the children soon ignore their father into hiring a maid (Sophia Loren) who is just what the scriptwriter ordered. She wiggles around, sings peculiar popular songs ("Presto, presto, do your very best, oh"), boils an egg-obviously, to the children, a normal American homemaker...
Worst-Kept Secret. Back home after World War I, Alfred tackles a career and marriage. He and his best big-rich college pal begin manufacturing airplanes, and Alfred woos and wins a Wilmington, Del. socialite named Mary St. John, who subconsciously loves Alfred's trust fund about as much as she does Alfred. Eaton shortly abandons the sky for "The Street" (Wall) and later bars Mary from his bed but not board after she has an affair with an ambisextrous psychoanalyst. Alfred in turn is smitten with a nacreous 22-year-old named Natalie, and thus begins...
...inner form and tension. Diffuse, repetitious, overly detailed, Terrace suffers badly from the fallacy that to fill space is to conquer time. When Appointment in Samarra appeared almost a quarter-century ago, it was apparent that Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald had a challenger. From the Terrace is probably the best novel O'Hara has written since Samarra; but he is still the challenger...
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