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John Raymond Godley, 34, 3rd Baron Kilbracken, from Killegar House in Ireland's County Cavan, invited Vicki for a weekend on his estate, met her at the Dublin airport in a grey cutaway coat and topper with a bouquet of roses and shamrocks, and a coach and four. Vicki proceeded to stay the weekend in the 150-year-old mansion, whose highceilinged, chandeliered gloom has never been desecrated by electricity. "Did you do any hunting?" Vicki was asked. "No," she replied, "but I was photographed with a Black Angus calf...
Miss Sarton presents Edward Cavan, professor of English at Harvard and a man dedicated to his friends, his teaching, and his ideals. But these ideals demand too much from Cavan and he demands the same from his friends. He is uncompromising, the kind of man for whom even the term "liberal" is a reproach, and a sign of diluted vigor. Cavan commits suicide, but just as he was too intense to live, he is too intense to die. His friends cannot turn their eyes from his vision or pry his grip from their lives...
...life, from newspaper reports and the talk of friends. But when she must supply her own talent, when her characters must think and feel as well as speak, then Faithful are the Wounds descends to inescapable banality. Only Julia Phillips, a professor's wife and life-long friends of Cavan's, seems more than a type or a convenient point of view. Mrs. Phillip is a sensitive woman, more emotional than intellectual. Miss Sarton seems to understand a woman like Julia Phillips. She can round out her character with evidences of wisdom and warmth. But there are a host...
...plump Hermann Wilhelm Göring and a group of Nazi generals. Marshal Pétain and Foreign Minister Pierre Laval of France were there. Because U. S. Ambassador Cudahy was on vacation, busy, bald William C. Bullitt flew from Moscow to represent the U. S. The Earl of Cavan, a field marshal in the British Army, represented George...
...Irish came dark-haired, nimble-brained Jews. Yankee families sent their sons out of the city to Andover, Exeter, Groton. Today 95% of Latin School boys are Irish or Jewish. Headmaster Joseph Lawrence Powers, a ruddy, white-thatched, billiard-playing Irishman, is the son of immigrants from County Cavan...