Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOUR OF LAST THINGS by George P. Elliott. 292 pages. Harper...
George P. Elliott is no square, but there is something sturdily old-fashioned about him all the same. The fictional fashions of the day are for chaos, apocalypse and sexual grotesqueries, splattered onto the page in a sort of verbal-action painting. Yet here is Elliott with 13 quiet, thoughtful stories, precisely fitted with conventional plot and narrative, and-at their best-fairly humming with moral earnestness. As for eroticism, Elliott is still getting mileage out of the kiss...
Inclement weather hampered the commencement exercises. As Dean Kathleen O. Elliott reached the letter "m" in the process of calling out each girl's name, the rain began to fall. Mrs. Bunting, who had been shaking each girl's hand and giving her her diploma, asked the class of '68 to decide "democratically" whether to continue the service outdoors in the Radcliffe Yard, or move into the gymnasium. The black-capped girls voted overwhelmingly to continue outdoors in the rain...
GEORGE M. ELLIOTT...
...seem to have run out of space in the Crimson, and neglected to print any real accounts of what went on at Columbia. This is not surprising. What is surprising now, in retrospect, is that anyone got excited when President Pusey spoke about Walter Mitty's of the Left. Elliott Abrams...