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...three children, whose tested IQs are in the genius range of 150-160. According to the West Windsor Township school board, they have broken the New Jersey law that requires all children to attend school or "receive an equivalent instruction elsewhere." Though the Trifans use Baltimore's famed Calvert School (tuition: $85 yearly), which gives lessons by mail to thousands of overseas and shut-in children, School Superintendent Francis Walton interprets the law to require "a classroom education." Children, says he, should "learn from each other in a group situation...
...Need for God. In The Light and the Dark Lewis continues to suffer, but from the sidelines. The setting is Cambridge, where, in the '30s, Lewis has become an academic cog. The central figure is Roy Calvert-a brilliant, rich, erratically humored young Orientalist who is decoding an ancient language called Early Soghdian. The first crisis is whether Calvert is to be elected a fellow of the college. In one of those vendettas of common room and high table that no one describes with more authoritative relish than C. P. Snow, Calvert squeaks through. But Roy is prey...
...live them down, to imbed them deep, not to let them lead him away from his future as a college worthy, from his amiable wife and son. But he was too realistic, too humble, too genuine a man to forget them. 'Uncle Arthur loves odd fish,' said Roy Calvert, whom he had helped through more than one folly. In middle age 'Uncle Arthur' was four square in himself, without a crack or flaw, rooted in his solid, warm, wise, and cautious nature. But he loved odd fish, for he knew, better than anyone, the odd desires, that he had left...
Drugs & Dreams. Like Candide, Ebenezer has a tutor-one Henry Burlingame, an unreconstructed rascal who appears throughout the book in a variety of disguises, extricating Ebenezer from the folly of his own innocence and "playing the world like a harpsichord." Disguised as Charles Calvert, Lord Baltimore, Burlingame appoints Ebenezer Poet and Laureate of the Province of Maryland, commissions him to compose an epic poem to be called the Marylandiad...
Abell was willing to catalogue municipal flaws ("Anybody in want of a dead pig can find one in Calvert Street"), but he largely ignored politicians as low types ranking somewhat beneath Baltimore's criminal element...