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...spring again. And look what the Easter bunny has brought all the way from France: Daddy's illegitimate son. Product of a mad moment a decade ago, little Jean-Claude arrives wearing a heavy coat of wistfulness atop his natural Gallic charm. His mother, you see, has died of Segal's syndrome (named after the author of Love Story, in whose calculating and sentimental mind this new imposition first arose), and all that stands between the lad and orphanhood is Bob Beckwith's willingness to do the decent thing by getting his wife and daughters to accept...
...over. Unfortunately, that is seldom the case, as former Rubber Worker Russell Silcox, 56, knows well. He has not held a permanent job in 4½ years despite taking a 40-week course in diesel mechanics and spending six weeks in a Government-funded program making plastic coat hangers. Earlier this month he began a twelve-month training program as a heavy-equipment mechanic. His family of four is just getting by on his unemployment benefits and his wife's nursing-home...
...rage against the modern emotions, unless one speaks from the intimacies of one's own feelings, and one's own sense of life, and one's own worked-for way of being?" asked Lionel Trilling. The testimony is always personal. Behind the spectacles and the fuzzy coat, the teacher teaches himself...
Freeman recognizes a few other regulars. "This guy gets on the bus every night at midnight." Freeman says as a tall man with a tweed coat and glasses boards the bus near Hilles. "He must be the librarian or something...
After an 18-year career as Harvard's assistant director of athletics, Eric Cutler '40 has decided to hang up his coat...