Word: budlong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Advocate is sponsoring a poetry and prose reading today at 4 p.m. in Harvard Hall. Allen Grossman '55, last year's Advocate president, will read poetry. Paula C. Budlong '56 will read a short story and Peter Heliczer '58 will close the program with more poetry...
...reading of poetry and prose, sponsored by the Advocate, is scheduled for Thursday at 4 p.m. in Harvard 4. John Hollander '55, a junior fellow and music director for Adams House's production of "Alcestis" will open by reading his poetry. Paula C. Budlong '56 will read a short story, which will be followed by Peter Heliczer '58 reading poetry...
...introduced character are substituted. The main drawback of the story, however, is its dry, unexciting style, which while being appropriate for the character of the protagonist, tends to discourage the reader. Perhaps just a little more verve, if only at the beginning, might make it more enticing. Paula Budlong, the Advocate's stand-by this year, contributes her usual polished story. This one is less grotesque, more subtle and indirect than her previous pieces...
...Paula Budlong again presents one of her sketches of human irrationality, the theme this time being an old maid's hatred of her father and the responsibility of caring for him. The story is not very complex, not, in fact, as complex as her previously published ghoulish stories. From the first, one knows the inevitable result of her plot, but, as in Gide's Immoralist, this element of inexorability adds in power what it takes away in dramatic tension. Miss Budlong uses her details well and her narrative is clear, with the exception of an unintentionally misleading last paragraph...
...Paula Budlong, much enamoured of the terrifying Shirley Jackson, has written a story of a sleepy town which feeds on terror. The ending is somewhat weak in that the ultimate disaster is not really forced by the townspeople, but on the whole it is a fascinating tale...