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Bearded Author Elliot (The Last Time I Saw Paris) Paul brooded, in the current Atlantic, on Paris' modern grisette: "The female denizen of the [Latin] Quarter, vintage 1950, is slender, supple and strong. The calves of her legs . . . indicate . . . that for years she has gone from place to place on bicycles . . . She is not consumptive, like Mimi . . . She does as she likes . . . When she takes a fancy to a poor young man . . . it is not the modern Mimi who will be timid or afraid. It will be Rudolph, if anyone, who trembles...
Joseph B. Dallett '51 of Wayne, Pa. and Elliot House has won the John Osborne Sargent Prize and Geoffrey B. Riddehough IG of Vancouver, British Columbia has won the Bowdoin Prize in Classics...
...possible in the death of its outstanding faculty member, Professor Matthiesses. Next year, several of its best tutors, such as Messrs. Holland and Levinson in the American field, will not be here. But personnel changes will not affect the general tenor of the field, which, under the chairmanship of Elliot Perkins, will continue its tradition of high standards and broad interests for undergraduates interested in both the social sciences and the humanities...
...sings when he is happy, and lies on his back on the veld and howls when he is sad. Danny is a somewhat disruptive influence; he ruins his sister's marriage, attempts to strangle his own son, and murders his brother out of jealously over the love of the Elliot's daughter...
...novel is best when it is describing the everyday life of the two transplanted families as they strive to maintain an English civilization of tea and tennis against the veld. Major Elliot pulls up the fever trees to build a formal park and garden around his house; Mrs. Ashburn holds a "musical evening" for the two families every Wednesday. In the portrayal of the subtle tensions and affections of their family life, the author shows fine perception...