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...Michael," by James Chace, is an excellent characterization of a family once rulers of a New England mill town. As the mills move south and the aristocratic tradition built on them crumbles, a generation in transition is coarsened and corrupted. The writing is mainly descriptive, switching skillfully between the points of view of nine-year-old Michael and of his aunt Mandy, who acts as a matriarch and alone recalls the aristocratic values of the past. Although the piece is avowedly part of a longer work, the scene through Michael's ingenuous eyes has a unity of mood and detail...
...writer shows great maturity of style in such technical matters as transition and selection of detail. However, he has taken such pains to avoid breaking the mood that there is no change of pace whatever. Chace might have given the story more motion by a dynamic use of dialogue, instead of burying the spoken conversation in description and stream of consciousness. The phrasing is near-perfect. There is hardly a bad sentence in the piece, except, perhaps, the first one ("In the spring of that year time hung over the city in a grey fog"), which is pretentious enough...
...rest of the Advocate is mediocre. James Chace's "The Mariner," a story about a little boy in a sailboat who finds a body, is a humid mass of sensory impressions thrown like a wet rag at the reader; the boy, boat, and body get lost in the flood. William Morgan's "The Cowgirl" is a long synoptic anecdote about a girl from Alabama who goes to New York with a man named Goldstein and ends up shooting at him through a bathroom door. The humor of the piece hangs largely on the contrast between the girls' quaint narrative style...
...have to determine whether enough Annex girls are interested in joining to warrant branching off from the H.Y.R.C. Cynthia J. Chace '53 said yesterday...
...coxwains at still alternating among the different boats. Jim Chace, Bill Herridge, al Lefkowitz, Hugh McCauley, and Al Menno are all competing for positions...