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Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature, stated that Longfellow was immensely important in American literature but that he was a "simple minded chap...
Never before had the 400-odd island villagers of North Haven seen such a fine schoolteacher and all-round nice fellow as lovable, affable Martin Godgart. A happy, hulking (6 ft., 250 lb.), multichinned chap with a Harvard accent, Godgart turned up last September on the tiny Penobscot Bay island off the coast of Maine, flashed a schoolteacher's certificate, got himself a job teaching high-school English, Latin and French. He quickly made friends with the normally reserved down-East folk; they liked his jolly ways, his eagerness to participate in North Haven affairs. He formed...
...tall chap at the far end of the table stood up. "It was a pretty bad day when we went," he said. "They have seven nets with different colored bands for the birds they catch. We got just two the whole day long--a Junco and a Tree Sparrow. We saw another one with a colored band, but we couldn't tell what color...
...fraternities, to Northwestern University's chapter of Psi Upsilon, which has no racial-discrimination provision in its charter. The victim: Sherman Wu, a freshman and son of Nationalist China's onetime (1949-53) Formosan Governor K. C. Wu (Grinnell '23). Young Sherman, a bright and ingratiating chap, had been pledged by Psi U, broken bread with his fraternity brothers, even had his picture taken with them. But nobody told Wu that eight of his fellow pledges, all equally desirable fellows, had turned thumbs down on Psi U because it had let down its bars to an Oriental...
...Author Moravia, the ending of Bitter Honeymoon is an uncommonly tender solution. More typical is Back to the Sea. Here Lorenzo, the husband, is the tortured chap whose marriage is one continual snub from his wife. She doesn't love him and never did. She has taken on a whole string of lovers. Lorenzo knows all this but knowing it only helps to heighten his infatuation. On a picnic by the sea, he tries to win her affection, then tries to take her by force, but he realizes that having her that way would really be a defeat. When...