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Honorable Mention went to Samuel Ralph Himmelhoch '57 of Eliot House for his essay, "The Living Cloth: A Study of Imagistic Logic in Novalis," and to David Kenneth Israel '56, also of Eliot House, for his essay, "The Uses of the Fantastic in Little Dorrit...
Other clinical descriptions in Dickens' novels are varied and comprehensive enough to make a case book: the post-concussional state of Eugene Wrayburn in Our Mutual Friend, the fatal cerebral vascular disease of Mr. Dorrit in Little Dorrit, the chronic hypomania of the stranger who made advances to Mrs. Nickleby over the garden wall in Nicholas Nickleby. In at least one instance Dickens got the jump on the medical profession: the first recorded instance of the association of narcolepsy (uncontrollable desire to sleep) with obesity occurs in the fat boy of Pickwick Papers...
...article "sounds as if an agent for Joe Stalin wrote it." In the Dallas News, Columnist Paul Crume, carefully misspelling the author's name, wrote: "We think the thing to do is to laugh and take comfort in the fact that, since Esquire published the article, Mr. Dorrit didn't get much money for it . . . Esquire is one of those magazines where, when you've botched an article so badly that nobody else would look at it, you aren't ashamed to send...
...Dorrit Brock, housemother of Briggs, phoned Dean Mary C. Small upon receipt of the phone call. Miss Small, in turn, called the Cambridge police and the A.D.T. Electrical Protection Service...
Doctor Ellen Dorrit Roffleit, Astronomer in the Harvard College Observatory, has found a star that may be the pre-Nova. No final decision will be made until the explosion dies down...