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...your administrators into oppressing you; I've tried to break down intelligence through weakness of character, and goodness through stupidity. All without success. You, O Men of Harvard, have remained intelligent, rich, and happy, the combination invincible. You live in a heaven Utopists have been dreaming about for centuries, companionship, games, regular, plentiful food and drink, clean, spacious housing, music everywhere you wish, no particular work, plenty of leisure for the pursuit of learning, splendid pedagogues, unbelievable intellectual facilities in the way of libraries, tutors, lectures...
...into Byron's rooms, waited in the street while he attended parties to which she had not been invited, tried to stab herself when he spoke crossly to her, forged his handwriting to get his picture from his publisher. Driven to distraction by her, Byron found companionship with her mother-in-law, Lady Melbourne, brilliant, cynical woman of 62, who gave him detailed advice on how to pursue charmers, was not shocked until he confessed his incestuous love for his sister. Byron also had a happier love affair with Lady Oxford, who was almost twice...
...than God's (in the Ahab chapter and 97 others) & those of Solomon, David, Satan & the rest of the sacred brotherhood. "If there is an Unexpurgated in the Children's Department won't you please help that young woman remove Huck and Tom from that questionable companionship...
...theme that saves Butterfidd 8 from being a squalid tale is the healthy, unfulfilled companionship of Gloria and Eddie, paralleling the turbulent, often miserable story of Gloria and the older man. Plain hostility to the older generation is apparent in John O'Hara's portraits of men over 40, since he paints them as depraved, smug, or made cowardly by the fear of publicity, writes unconvincingly of Gloria's family life. Gloria and Eddie, rattling off interrupted reminiscences of childhood, wisecracking and communicating in scrambled, mocking cliches, understand one an-other so completely that, John...
Syndicating an account of her dalliance with Actor John Barrymore, Elaine Barrie gushed: "We idled and idylled away that week of pure companionship in that dear hospital room. . . . Let other lovers praise the rose and the violet. The perfume which penetrates to my heart is that of a hospital corridor, and to the day I die I shall sniffle a bit whenever I sniff iodoform...