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...decades ago Hollywood was Babylon cum Samarkand cum Coney Island. The mind swayed like a prop palm before a wind machine; reason lay limp on the cutting-room floor. Pola Negri walked her leashed leopard cub. through the streets; Bessie Love drove a lavender-colored limousine ; Marion Davies* brought a marble bridge from Italy to span her 80-ft., saltwater swimming pool; and Dolores Del Rio let it be known that she drank only from a golden chalice. Even discounting the pressagents' fevered imaginations, it was a wondrously gaudy existence...
...prostitution for extra money because her "habit" demanded 50 to 60 capsules of heroin a day. In her endless search for drugs, almost every corner of the city had become a hunting ground; she named scores of drugstores, bars, restaurants, hotels, schools and nightclubs from The Bronx to Coney Island where she had purchased...
...reaches of the library, potato chips sound like static on a 1932 radio . . . Classes begin at seven past the hour; lectures are not like continuous movies, so don't come into a lecture in the middle . . . Radcliffe in the spring is lovely . . . But the Radcliffe Yard is not Coney Island . . . Radcliffe girls ought to look like ladies; it is imperative that they be recognized as girls...
...Tabori meant Dr. Varga's story as some sort of significant parable. This suspicion is confirmed by the dust jacket, whereon the author calls his story "a comment on the tragedy of the liberal." All in all, this is a little like being taken on a tour of Coney Island and then being told that it was all meant as an exhibit of the tragedy of life in the city...
...they warn. They rhapsodize the beauties of Radcliffe, but swoop swiftly to earth again, thusly: "Ivy walls notwithstanding, Radcliffe is an urban college. Radcliffe in the spring is lovely. The apple tree is in full bloom and the grass is green and inviting. But the Radcliffe Yard is not Coney Island. Don't sprawl about; even exam period is not an excuse for unladylike behavior...