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...Courts of Memory, by Frank Rooney. One of the year's best first novels, although tedious in spots, about the lost generation of the '30s and its conformist nonconformists (TIME...
...handful of stores at the far end of the common and the buildings on the knoll the town of Amherst ceases and the college, one of the top educational institutions in New England, begins. Beneath this quiet exterior lies the social and academic activity of a vigorous but somewhat conformist college community...
When Novelist-Anthropologist Oliver (Laughing Boy) La Farge wrote his autobiography at 43, he had some sharp words to say. about U.S. private prep schools, and Groton in particular. Such places, said he, are "grindingly conformist." Last week, in the Atlantic Monthly, La Farge, now 52, announced a change of heart...
Seventeen-year-old Tom Lee is a quiet, sensitive "off horse" at a particularly muscular and conformist school; he lives, furthermore, under the roof of a particularly harsh and he-man housemaster. From a little acorn of gossip an ugly scandal soon spreads its entangling branches, with Tom defended only by his housemaster's beautiful, equally off-horse wife. Trying desperately to prove his normality by dating the town tramp, Tom only leaves it further in doubt; and it is the housemaster's wife herself, who at the florid final curtain, prepares to make...
...work of a graduate Junior Fellow Geoffrey Bush. His "A Great Reckoning in a Little Room" combines, to considerable dramatic affect, imagined selections from Christopher Marlowe's diary and letters. Bush has caught the spirit of two men one an iconoclast and a great author, the other a conformist and his betrayer...