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...afraid during much of the war. He wonders, with the insistence of a man probing a throbbing tooth, why he was always a loner, why his first two marriages failed, whether he had ever been anything but an actor: "Wasn't I a fo'c'sle dweller who was not a fo'c'sle dweller? A student who was not a student; a doryman unlike any other doryman? I am flawed inside and I know it. Could it be perhaps that this is a trick of fate to compensate for my being tall and strong...
...many a modern city dweller who lives under a pall of smog, smokes incessantly, worries about fallout and sprays his flowers with pesticides, possible causes of cancer seem to close in on all sides. "It pleases many to think of cancer as a necessary concomitant of civilization," says Scottish Physician C. S, Muir, "a penalty to be paid for the abandonment of the rustic simplicity of a bygone age, a toll to be exacted for the convenience of the automobile and the pleasures of the cigarette." Even doctors dream of some remote part of Africa or Asia, "where, removed from...
...year. I was appalled to discover during my freshman year that Harvard boys disdain Radcliffe girls. I have always been considered attractive and did not anticipate social difficulties in college. As you are, I assume, a socially active 'Cliffie, I wish you would tell me your secret. LONELY CLIFF-DWELLER...
...writer of bias, and of seeing modern civilized evils in the simple life of primitive man. For Under the Mountain Wall presents a picture of stone age existence in New Guinea that is filled with just as much anxiety, anguish and striving as the life of any modern city dweller...
...most part, 124 Walker people play grown-up apartment house dweller in other ways. Parietal restrictions remain, to be sure. Still, the residents consider twenty-five hours a week in which to invite friends of either sex for dinner or coffee or a party (unfortunately still dry) infinitely better--more casual and natural--than conditions in the dormitories...